He decided that the best application of this technology would be to create a reading machine for the blind, which would allow blind people to have a computer read text to them out loud.
[21], for discussion of a number of interesting computer image-processing techniques, and see Minot [40] and Stevens [41] for reviews of the reading machine and related problems. One should also examine some biological work, e.g.
For people who are blind, we will have reading machines within a few years that are not just sitting on a desk, but are tiny devices you put in your pocket. ...
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