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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1997
Raymond C Kurzweil, Newton, MA (US);
Firdaus Bhathena, Cambridge, MA (US);
Stephen R Baum, Needham, MA (US);
Kurzweil Educational Systems, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A reading machine for a blind or visually impaired person includes a computer system that causes the computer to load a definition file in accordance with the current word whose definition a user desires the reading machine to read aloud, extract from said definition file text corresponding to at least a first definition contained in said file, and synthesize speech corresponding to the extracted text to permit the definition to be read aloud. The reading machine includes a user input device including a user activated button that produces a signal that causes the computer to enter a definition mode to read a definition of current word being spoken by the reading machine.