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Kurzweil Reading Edge

picture of Kurzweil reading edge
The Kurzweil Reading Edge is an optical character recognition scanner and speech synthesizer. It works somewhat like a photocopy machine, but instead of printing a copy of a page, the Reading Edge reads the page out loud. It is controlled by pressing keys on a keypad.


30 July 1998
content prepared by Beth Traylor and Sue Kashinski