Intel Offers Mobile Reader to Benefit
People with Disabilities
Every day, millions of people cope with subtle, yet difficult, challenges – a professional who balances dyslexia with the demands of her job or an older adult losing his vision due to a medical condition, for example. What can assistive technology do for them?
Intel is answering this need with the Intel® Reader, a new mobile device that helps users achieve greater independence with fast, efficient access to the printed information they need at work, school or in their daily lives.
The Intel Reader is a portable text reading device that allows individuals with reading-based learning disabilities such as dyslexia, or those who have low vision and blindness to access printed material—boosting their confidence and encouraging independent learning. It can help users accomplish more at school or work.
Whether it is a newspaper, text book, or business card, users are free to capture and read when they want, where they want.
How does it work?
The Intel Reader combines a high-resolution camera with text-to-speech software that converts a picture of printed text into an audio file, and then reads it aloud. Capturing and playing back text with the Intel Reader is as easy as point, shoot, listen. A user holds it over the printed text, pushes the Capture button to take a picture of the page, and the Reader speaks it on the spot. Users can listen to it through the earphones if they want privacy or when it's convenient
Weighing a little over a pound, and about the size of a paperback novel, the Intel Reader is light-weight, compact and easy to use for people of all ages.
What else can the Intel Reader do?
The Intel Reader allows users to play DAISY books, text transferred from a personal computer as well as MP3 and WAV music files.
Taking picture of large amounts of text (i.e. text books) is no problem thanks to the Intel Portable Capture Station, which holds books flat for easy capture
Users can play back content selecting gender, pitch, and speed to suit their personal preferences. A USB connection makes it easy to transfer files to or from a personal computer or USB drive.
Portable and unobtrusive, the Intel Reader takes pictures of printed material. It then converts it to digital form and allows magnification and/or audio playback. The reliable Intel® technology combines a high-resolution camera with an Intel® Atom™ processor. Which means conversion is fast, and the Intel Reader can hold large amounts of text.
A user can store content on the Intel Reader. The text can be enlarged many times, and the voice quality is exceptionally clear.
The Intel Reader sells for $1,499.