talking scanner thing

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From: the wharf rat
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:36

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	I'm looking for a scanner wand that will process scanned
text into speech with either a loadable dictionary or a way to manually
add new words.  Like those old cuecat scanners, but I want it to do text 
to speech conversion on the fly and it's a technical subject so "see dick
and jane run" won't be sufficient in the dictionary department...  There are 
commercial or "professional" units that do this but they cost several 
thousand dollars.

	I've found only one model that's less than 1000 and I'm not sure
it'll work; the vocabulary seems aimed at the high school level and 
younger...

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From: wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat)
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Subject: talking scanner thing
Date: 8 Nov 2008 20:36:49 -0500
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