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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 19, 1998
Raymond C. Kurzweil, Newton, MA (US);
L&H Applications USA, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A reading system includes a computer and a mass storage device and software including instructions for causing a computer to accept an image file generated from optically scanning an image of a document. The software converts the image file into a converted text file that includes text information, and positional information associating the text with the position of its representation in the image file. The software records the voice of an operator of the reading machine as a series of voice samples in synchronization with a highlighting indicia applied to a displayed representation of the document and stores the series of voice samples in a data structure that associates the voice samples with displayed representation. The reading machine plays back the stored, recorded voice samples corresponding to words in the document as displayed by the monitor while highlighting is applied to the words in the displayed document.