Readers For The Blind

Most people think the deaf

Most people who have learned Braille read - and read on a consistently high level. Some people who are Blind do not learn to read Braille but depend on voice activated computer programs.

The majority of people who are deaf are functionally illiterate. Not all, but most. (I gave a bunch of citations to research in a previous question.)

So the fact of the matter is that more people who are Blind read better than people who are Deaf, but since fewer and fewer Blind children are being taught to read Braille on account of computer usage - this may change in the future if it hasn't begun already.

2008-11-14 23:57:05 by jobees

Palm Reader,

Have a friend who would like to purchase a mobile which will be able to be used as a scanner for documents and then it reads out information. I believe it's called a KNFBlind reader. Also a Nokia82 is also used for this purpose. Any info would be most welcome.
I understand that the reader itself is very expensive, but the Nokia 82 can also be used with downloaded software. Know anyone who's done it? + did it work?

so what is ur question?

2008-07-13 11:34:06 by thirdworld

I need to earn money with this, so volunteer slots won't be the best solution for me.

Here are the people that already do that work, why not get in touch with them directly.

(You are now a step nearer to the job you would like to do, Good Luck.)

Listen

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the mp3 or ogg files into your own computer:

http://isohunt.com/

http://www.librivox.org/

http://www.yakitome.com/

http://www.free-books.org/

http://www.loudlit.org/collection.htm *****

http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/home

http://www.audiobookscorner.com/free.htm l

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categori es/1

http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/Free_Aud iobooks/dp/202/

2009-02-02 10:47:15 by Parrot Eyes

The Amazon Kindle e-reader has the Text to speech function. You can see point 6 here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?i e=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ama zon.com%2Freview%2FR6L0G6ZY33S96%3Fie%3D UTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255F perm&tag=moreinfo-po-20&linkCode =ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
I'm an Amazon Kindle owner and I love it. I've also given more of my opinions on the device here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index? qid=20090714124933AAc4RBw

Hope it helps.