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A mixture of an Optical Character Recognition / Text-to-speech software (the source material is identified by eye-tracking lasers). The audio-output from the Text to speech system is sent to earphones attached to the glasses' ear-hooks.
AT&T Text-To-Speech Demo
http://www.research...ttsweb/tts/demo.php
Fun with accents. [baconbrain, Mar 27 2008]
KNFB Reader
http://www.knfbread...products-mobile.php
cell phone with this feature and gps for people who are blind [JesusHChrist, Mar 28 2008]
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its a shame that you actually have to *look* at the text i.e. you could be doing the housework or office work and yet, the glasses hold up the text and read to you rather like a radio... |
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"If you can read this you're too close" |
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<On the bus, earphones fall out whilst reading Bambi Erotica,external speaker kicks in>Mrs Tibbs - "Oooh I say" |
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A few tweaks and this could potentially help the blind read non-Braille books. [+] |
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+ I like [po]'s and [theleopard]'s annos. Both great suggestions to a cool idea!
OK, I like [skinflaps] funny, too. |
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[po] The laser eye tracking was an afterthought, but the idea was to prevent the same text from being read-out every time it happens to be on screen / in view (e.g. "halfbakery" at the top left of all pages here) - Sure sometimes you want to check what site you're on, but it shouldn't be repeated all the time.
That said. I like the specialist-radio idea - I guess we'll make the eye-tracking turn-off-and-on-able... probably by some gesture, like blinking both eyes in a certain sequence |
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[theleopard] - I was thinking of an anti-dyslexia tool, but I like. |
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// I was thinking of an anti-dyslexia tool//
What's wrong with daily sex? |
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Dairy sex? Isn't that illegal? |
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<imagines blind grandfather reading a bedtime story, from a "magic book", to the astonishment of his confused grandchildren> |
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So, not an obscure Spanish football club then? |
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[JHC] Sound like they should be a BlueTooth device, cool! |
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[Absinthe] I didn't know Madrid was twinned Reading of all places |
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