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Special program that scans and reads books helps those with dyslexia

Paulette Martin

Issue date: 3/12/08 Section: Features

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Vasquez said that the most compelling thing about using the Kurzweil is when people get to hear the work they have produced and listen to the words they come up with.

National Inventors Hall of Fame winner, Ray Kurzweil originally created the Kurzweil Educational Systems back in 1996. The Kurzweil 3000, a program that is part of the Kurzweil Educational Systems, makes reading a breeze for dyslexic students and also for students who are struggling with their reading assignments.

Kurzweil, the creator is also known for other innovative technology that he has produced.

As his bibliography states, Kurzweil was the principal developer of the omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first Charge Coupled Device (CCD) flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition as well as other achievements.

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Jean Hutchins

posted 3/13/08 @ 1:54 AM PST

Kurzweil 3000 and other scanning and text to speech software (free and for purchase) are very good. Dyslexics use them a great deal. However, it does not give equality. (Continued…)

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