The Intel Reader takes pictures of text and read it aloud. It’s designed to provide access to printed text for people with dyslexia, low vision or blindness. The mobile Intel Reader is researched and designed by Intel’s Digital Health Group , which is built on the Intel Atom processor and run on the Moblin operating system. It takes pictures of text and read it aloud. It’s designed to provide access to printed text for people with dyslexia, low vision or blindness.
It has a camera that can translate text in pictures into ASCII text that can be read out loud by the computer (thanks to an Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, engine). The Intel Reader is available today for $1,499.That’s a pretty hefty price, considering that devices like the $259 Amazon Kindle can read books aloud in a robotic voice. The packaging includes braille notation to identify the manuals, and a tutorial audio CD. It also has a four-inch color display that can render the words being read in large font sizes. The device can read millions of books that have been formatted online for visually-impaired readers, and it comes with a high-resolution camera that can convert printed text to digital text.
Sold by resellers such as CTL, Howard Technology Solutions and HumanWare, the paperback-sized device combines a 5-megapixel camera with a Linux-powered, optical character-recognition system and software that converts text into the spoken word. With 2GB of storage, it can store about 600 snapshots of scanned pages — at two pages per snapshot that would represent a 1,200-page paperback novel
