Student Operating Kurzweil Reading Machine | The American Library Association Archives

A student from the Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown, Massachusetts, scanning a book on the Kurzweil Reading Machine.

Caption reads: "A student at the Perkins School for the Blind operating The Kurzweil Reading Machine. This computer-assisted device scans a print page automatically with an optical character recognition system; breaks down the character into graphemes (basic print elements); translates these print elements into basic sound elements (phonoemes); and puts these elements together into synthesized speech. This speech follows rules of pronunciation, inflection, and stress programmed into the computer (along with the exception to rules)."

Found in 99/1/18, Box 2, Folder: Student at Perkins School for the Blind Operating Kurzweil Reading Machine