[GTALUG] Kurzweil Reading Edge

[Karen Lewellen]

Stewart
Granted, I have used these for many years, and am rather good at the 
brightness  level adjustments, but, when properly trained, the recognition 
wait  time is less than 15 seconds depending on the material being scanned.
Which is the key, there are options for different kinds of materials, 
books hardback or paperback, newspapers, magazines, etc.
Also, if one does not change the column setting it adds time while the 
machine   looks for a column that might not be there.
Still, recognition gets faster once the machine  learns what it is 
examining, so if this source claims it takes a  while, someone did not 
fully do their homework speaking personally.
Karen



On Sat, 29 May 2021, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:

> On Sat., May 29, 2021, 07:37 Mike Kallies via talk, <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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>> It's approached as a gadget guy, so no deep dives, but he demos it and
>> gets into a bit of the history and the warts of the aging machines.
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> He's the only person I've seen demo one who included and commented on the
> recognition wait time. Kurzweil was more of a demo showman than would admit
> the machine wasn't perfect.
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> Cheers
> Stewart
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