[Ct-nfb] [FWD: NEAT: Free Demonstration of the NEWrevolution in text to speech scanning

[Suzanne Westhaver]

So, it doesn’t work independently?  You have to hook it up to a computer in order to get it to work?

I thought you could take the camera and be at a seminar and be able to click any documents handed out and it would read it back.  If I understand you now, I would need to also have my laptop?


rom: Esther Levegnale 
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 10:14 AM
To: 'NFB of Connecticut Mailing List' 
Subject: Re: [Ct-nfb] [FWD: NEAT: Free Demonstration of the NEWrevolution in text to speech scanning

Suzanne!

 

I went to a demonstration of the Pearl camera last fall and at that time, Freedom Scientific had a deal going on where the camera was $600 and the upgrade to Open Book 9, if you didn’t have that version installed already, was $150.  I took advantage of that deal and I have to say that the Pearl working with Open Book 9 has very rapid scanning, and the time between scanning and reading aloud is within seconds.  Of course, like all scanners, sometimes it reads gibberish, and that depends on the print.  I don’t know if FS is doing another deal, but it pays for anyone just to see it demonstrated.  I know you can’t make the demonstration, but I would encourage any one of you on this list to just see how it works.  The camera is the scanner and it’s portable, connecting to any computer via a USB cable attached to it.

 

Esther



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