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Voice Stick
Braille is still the standard when it comes to helping the visually impaired read. Unfortunately translating text into braille is costly and time consuming thus the disproportionate number of braille books. Voice Stick is an advance optical character recognition scanner designed to make all books available to the visually impaired.
As you pass the wand over a page, text in translated and read to you in a friendly voice. It can be used to convert any text from books, newspapers, contracts, mail, business cards, etc., into voice information.
Designer: Sungwoo Park
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28 Comments »
momo23 says
Good cause but how does a blind know the orientation of the words on the paper? Portrait, landscape or even upside down?
enoo says
I suppose it’s just a concept again. OCR is still far from perfect, and scanning manualy a document won’t help.
Really.
Hm, and the “Voice Stick” link printed on the bottom of the last image has nothing to do with this, it’s just a VoIP company. Maybe the guy should have checked that before doing a nice 3D render with that adress. I guess that kinda proves it’s just a non-existing product.
turcco says
its a good idea. but OCR mistakes may cause irritation. then we should read it ourselves. and how speed can it read? anyway good idea.
obvi says
Is this only a concept? I have a blind friend who would love something like this. He’s not very good with braille
Klaas Jager says
where can i buy this product and what does it cost??
A student in my class is blind.
K. jager
yuli says
Sungwoo Park 짱!
lauret says
où puis-je acheter le voice stick ?
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