[gui-talk] Fw: New Product Launched To Aid The Visually Disabled

[Steve Pattison]

>From: <mailto:Vipcomm at mchsi.com>Parker at Vip conduit
>To: <mailto:accessibleDevices at googlegroups.com>Accessible Devices
>
>This is all the current information we have.  We'll pass along any 
>more we get.
>     NewLaunches.com.
>Monday, August 21, 2006.
>Korea based A.D. Information has announced the Voice-Eye a portable
>text reader designed to help the disabled. The unit comprises of two
>parts a barcode
>scanner 'Voice-Eye Symbol' and a player that reads the text stored in
>the special Voice-Eye Symbol.
>The player looks like a crude version of the iPod with controls
>arranged in the familiar click wheel style. It supports English,
>Chinese, Japanese, and
>Korean, by installing TTS (Text to Speech) engine it can support
>additional languages.
>It plays music too as no modern day gizmo is complete without MP3
>playback. The Voice-Eye is currently being used in courts across Korea
>for reading out
>the judgement and other news to handicapped people. The voice produced
>very much human like, it supports stand alone recording without the
>need of a PC.
>Files can be transferred via USB connection.
>A Lithium Polymer battery powers the Voice-Eye, pricing and
>availability is not known yet.
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