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Text Reading Example, 1 of 3
When presenting audio content for the blind, one challenge can be the speed of delivery. This audio illustrates something that is much too slow.
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Text Reading Example, 12 of 3
This example is faster, yet still too slow.
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Text Reading Example, 3 of 3
Even our fastest example is too slow!
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Links
- Low-cost PDA
- Rollable portable keyboard
- Generic Linux for the blind page
- Free speech synthesis
- More speech synthesis
- Desktop for the blind
- OS speech synthesis
- Waysmall computers
- Lightweight screen reader for Linux
- Talking Linux kernel
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