Comments on: Another Book-Reading Option Coming Soon

By: Desiree

Desiree — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:22:44 +0000

I agree, just another reason to get an iPhone I suppose… smile.

By: Shelly O

Shelly O — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:23:30 +0000

I can’t wait to try out this new software! It will be very helpful to me, epecially if it works with I-phone. Our church is constantly doing studies that aren’t available via bookshare so the ability to purchase the e-books when available at the same cost as our sighted peers, and then access it without having to spend hours scanning oly to find that the document still needs editing to be legible, will be a huge blessing! Yay to Kurtzweil for continuing to level the playing field for us.

By: Desiree

Desiree — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:17:30 +0000

You’re right… I mean, they have done a ton of work on synthesized speech and they sound much better than they did 10 years ago, but it’s still not even close to hearing a human being reading something.

By: Mike Moore

Mike Moore — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:33:52 +0000

This is great news. I wonder if publishers are going to balk on the text to speech feature the way they have on Kindle. There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between text to speech and audio books. Perhaps the execs of all of the major publishing houses could be blindfolded and forced to use a screen reader to do their jobs for a week.