This thing almost won Last Gadget Standing at CES. Which would sorta figure. It scans a page of a book and then reads aloud the text. Unfortunately it does this all about as well as the Kindle Text-To-Speech function which is robotic sounding and does not work right all the time. engadget has a video of this going on.
Get this, they want $1,499 for the experience of not quite ready for prime time Optical Character Reader feeding a underwhelming Text-To-Speech engine. JOY!
I don’t know, I would just go to the trouble of hacking the Adobe DRM and let a more robust Text-To-Speech program to read it to me for a lot less than that.
Tags: eBook Readers
Emmy wrote,
how does the device get around the complaints that Kindle got about infringing on audiobook rights?
Link | January 9th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
It scans a print book. Since you own a book just not an eBook no one can really complain about that.
Link | January 9th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Fledchen wrote,
Not a new idea. The KNFB reader does the same thing, but is actually accessible to people who would be most likely to use it (i.e. blind and print-disabled people). http://www.knfbreader.com
Link | January 10th, 2010 at 5:11 pm