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Intel will be releasing a win for visually impaired people, a newdevice called the Intel Reader. It allows visually impaired people totake a snapshot of a newspaper, book, or magazine and have it readback to them. It's estimated that in the US alone there are as many as55 million people who could make use of such a device. It comes athefty price though: the paperback-sized device costs $1,499. Thedevice contains a 5-megapixel camera and is powered by a Linux OCRsystem that converts text into spoken words. The device can hold up to2GB of data, which would equate to around 600 snapshots. In additionto reading text, the device can also play back audio books in a numberof supported formats such as MP3 and WAV. The Intel Reader is expectedto be released next Tuesday. The device won't be speedy: Intel says ittakes about 30 seconds to process each page of text... It took...about 30 minutes to scan in the pages of a 250-page book and then onehour to process them. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/11/10/intel-offers-an-e-reader-with-a-difference/tab/print/
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