KNFB Reading Technology, Inc. Premieres Reader Mobile Product Line

The kReader Mobile from knfbReading Technologies, Inc., allows the blind, vision impaired, and learning disabled to portably access print in real world situations, where receipts, menus, signs, and everyday objects were previously unreadable.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KNFB Reading Technology, Inc. will premiere its Reader Mobile product line—featuring the first cell phone that reads to the learning disabled, vision impaired, and blind—at the Learning Disabilities Association of America Annual Conference 2008.

The pocket-sized device is the first of its kind, and enables users to take pictures of and then read most printed materials at the push of a button, using the high-resolution camera in the state-of-the-art Nokia N82 cell phone. Users can hear documents, signs, menus, receipts, even currency – most any printed text – read aloud in clear synthetic speech, at an adjustable speed.

KNFB Reading Technology is the brain child of Ray Kurzweil, a thirty-year innovator and pioneer in assistive technologies and the inventor of the world’s first print-to-speech reading machine. The kReader uses a combination of unique intelligent image-processing software with text-to-speech and text-tracking features, which makes interpreting text much easier for individuals with learning disabilities. They can now enlarge, read, track, and highlight text using the phone’s large, easy-to-read display.

"This innovation gives people with learning disabilities a mobile tool to cope with the large amount of reading required in business and everyday life. It gives them easy access to print, almost instantaneously, anywhere and at anytime,” said Ray Kurzweil, President and CEO of KNFB Reading Technology, Inc.