New Linux PDA For Blind People

[Richard Villa]

Boy!

You've have a lot to learn!

Richard
At 11:14 AM 3/31/2006, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
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>Actually, the few thousand more sales would, or at least should 
>justify making a
>mainstream device usable by disabled people.  We're talking about a 
>few thousand
>more sales over the few million sales they already make.  More is 
>always better.
>And since they have already done the bulk of the r&d to simply make their
>product work, it isn't a big jump to make it work for people whose eyes don't
>work, especially since most of that r&d has already been done, and not just by
>assistive technology companies, but by companies who make products 
>and services
>we use every day, such as TellMe, (voice recognition) and IBM, (voice
>recognition and voice synthesis).  It is actually an extremely 
>simple matter to
>figure out how to get info to a speech synthesizer, and translation of voice
>commands to typed characters and menu commands has already been done 
>on a number
>of fronts.
>
>Lorenzo
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