The National Federation of the Blind has introduced the Kurzwell-National Federation of the Blind Reader, which combines a digital camera and a character-recognition software with text-to-speech conversation technology.
The user holds the device over printed material and the device takes a picture of the text and plays back the content in synthetic speech. It can also store the contents and transfer them to a computer. This device is available to consumers July 1st, but is a little pricy: $3,495.00.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/index.blog?entry_id=1511924
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