dan@rna.UUCP (12/19/83)
The company ARTS Computer, Inc. in Boston, makes computer aids for the blind and visually impaired. Products include an intelligent ASCII to speech terminal, large print CRT terminals, and Braille translators, formatters and embossers (which are nroff compatible). Their phone number is 617-482-8238. Or mail me. Cheers, Dan Ts'o ...cmcl2!rna!dan
gek@ihuxj.UUCP (Glenn Kapetansky) (12/21/83)
Following is an off-the-cuff list of micro products for the blind:
Telesensoring, Inc (California) makes a battery-powered lap
computer which prints braille in 20 char/line format. May
be used alone or connected to a host.
Federal Screw Works (WHY did they pick a name like that?!)
makes a Talk'n'Speak board which is an ASCII to speech
converter. It does not recognize punctuation.
Hewlett Packard sends its terminals to another company which
removes the printer mechanism and adds a processor to perform
ASCII to speech conversions. Slurs slightly, but is very fast
and a better product than Federal Screw Works. About $5K.
IBM may do something comparable to HP, only for EBCDIC.
Kurzweil has done some magnificent work in designing machines
that read printed books out loud. His company is now part of
Xerox, I believe. Last I heard, though, he was still in the
$10K range.
Hope this is of help.RITTENHOUSE.UCI-20B%rand-relay@sri-unix.UUCP (12/22/83)
From: Rob Rittenhouse <RITTENHOUSE.UCI-20B@rand-relay> I have a blind writer friend who is looking for a microcomputer system. Does anyone know of a suitable system? (She's thinking of an integrated voice synthesizer, text editor). Thanks in advance Rob R.