[Arizona-students] KNFB Reader Speech Engine

[David Andrews]

Yes, it uses Eloquence.

Dave

At 06:50 PM 6/4/2006, you wrote:
>Yeah, I think so. Tony might know more about the speech engine.
>
>Arielle
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Allie" <Alejandra.Martins at asu.edu>
>To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List" 
><arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Ceramics class
>
>
>> So, it uses eloquence then? That's awesome.
>>
>> -- Allie
>>
>> God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft
>> before the masterpiece.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Arielle Silverman" <Arielle.Silverman at ASU.edu>
>> To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List"
>> <arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Ceramics class
>>
>>
>>> Hi Allie and all,
>>>
>>>    The KNFB reader is a portable reading device that is currently in beta
>>> testing, so a number of Federationists from each state are testing the
>>> machine. It is basically a PDA and digital camera which are connected
>>> inside
>>> a leather-like case. You can hold the reader above a page or other piece
>>> of
>>> printed text and press a button, and the camera will take a picture of 
>>> the
>>> page. About a minute later, the PDA will read any text from the page 
>>> aloud
>>> with a voice synthesizer similar to the one that JAWS uses. The reader is
>>> good at reading most typewritten things, as well as some restaurant 
>>> menus,
>>> boxes, business cards, and receipts. I believe that it will be for sale
>>> beginning in July.
>>>
>>> Arielle
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Allie" <Alejandra.Martins at asu.edu>
>>> To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List"
>>> <arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 12:13 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Ceramics class
>>>
>>>
>>>> Sounds like Kim is really helpful! I looooooove it when I come across
>>>> people
>>>> like that!
>>>>
>>>> By the way, how does the KNFB work?
>>>>
>>>> -- Allie
>>>>
>>>> God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft
>>>> before the masterpiece.
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "tony sohl" <tonysohl at extremezone.com>
>>>> To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>; <arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 11:08 PM
>>>> Subject: [Arizona-students] Ceramics class
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all, this is Melissa Cordell and Tony Sohl from Arizona.  We are 
>>>>> both
>>>>> taking a ceramics class this summer, and we thought you might like to
>>>>> know
>>>>> about our instructor and our aid who we have.
>>>>>
>>>>> The instructor is willing to work with us.  The aid aid who helps us in
>>>>> class, is very patient with us.  Her name is Kim Mendoza.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kim is very understanding about our blindness as well as Melissa's
>>>>> limited
>>>>> use of her right hand and the fact that she's in a wheelchair.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kim asks us what is the best way to help us.  Kim will asm me for
>>>>> example
>>>>> if it's ok for her to take my hand and show me what she's doing or
>>>>> sometimes she will have me put my hand over her hand so I can see what
>>>>> she's doing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kim will even E-mail things to us if our scanner will not be able to
>>>>> read
>>>>> the printed material.
>>>>>
>>>>> Linda Speranza our ceramics instructor asks us what's is the best way 
>>>>> to
>>>>> handle printed material.  I had the KNFB Reader with me the first day 
>>>>> of
>>>>> class and she was impressed with how I was able to read the handout
>>>>> which
>>>>> she gave us.  It felt good that I could sit there and listen with the
>>>>> head
>>>>> phones to the handout even while she was going over it with the rest of
>>>>> the class.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know what you dink of this.
>>>>>
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