New Linux PDA For Blind People

Lorenzo Taylor lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net
Fri Mar 31 12:14:52 EST 2006


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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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