01/12/2009 - New e-book reading software announced.
New e-book reading software has been announced which will revolutionise access to e-books for print impaired people.
K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., the world-renowned pioneer in reading technologies, and Baker & Taylor Inc., the world's largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, have announced a partnership to supply digital content for a newly developed e-book reading software created in collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind.
The software will be offered to consumers for free, and it is expected to be launched in the US at the end of November. It supports text-to-speech, and notably, will run on laptops and desktop computers (PCs and Macs) as well as netbooks and mobile phones - Windows mobile and the iPhone right away with other mobile phone operating systems added as quickly as possible. The software can read any format from straight text to PDF and ePub (files are converted into 'their own format'), and the text-to-speech will synch with the text display to highlight each word as it is spoken.
Contributed by Denise Dwyer, RNIB.
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