talking scanner thing
the wharf rat
I'm looking for a scanner wand that will process scanned
text into speech with either a loadable dictionary or a way to manually
add new words. Like those old cuecat scanners, but I want it to do text
to speech conversion on the fly and it's a technical subject so "see dick
and jane run" won't be sufficient in the dictionary department... There are
commercial or "professional" units that do this but they cost several
thousand dollars.
I've found only one model that's less than 1000 and I'm not sure
it'll work; the vocabulary seems aimed at the high school level and
younger...
the wharf rat
Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
>
>Buying a scanner for speech seems like buying a TV/DVD/DVR combo
>unit. One parts breaks, the whole thing breaks.
The idea is that you use it to "read" textbooks "in place"
rather than by trying to scan the thing and then navigate it.
Doug McLaren
| I'm looking for a scanner wand that will process scanned text into
| speech with either a loadable dictionary or a way to manually add
| new words.
Well, I imagine the blind use something like that, but that's probably
what you find when you talk about commercial or "professional" units.
Still, some blind FAQ or something might have some suggestions ...
And I'll bet they all choke on technical words. And adding new words
seems like something few would offer at any price.
And I'll bet you're aware of all of this already.
--
Doug McLaren, dou...@frenzied.us
First corollary to Clarke's Third Law: `Any technology distinguishable
from magic is insufficiently advanced'
the wharf rat
Hope springs eternal.