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‘Next big thing’ in e-books? Kurzweil’s new e-book software is going out the gate with at least 180K titles committed to it:
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‘Next big thing’ in e-books? Kurzweil’s new e-book software is going out the gate with at least 180K titles committed to it:
December 8, 2009 | 3:56 pm
We told you this was coming. Inventor Ray Kurzweil (photo) said in October that his new blind-friendly software could handle text to speech as well as ePub and PDF formats. Kurzeil is involved with knfbReading Technology, a partnership with the National Federation of the Blind. So there could be more than hype here. Kurzweil in another incarnation invented a way to do optical character recognition from many fonts, a tech he then matched up with text to speech synthesis for the blind. But can the new e-reading software---pick up some more details here---catch on? Well, Mike...


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