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Reading Assistant

Also known as: Reading Aid, Reading Machine

An assistive technology device or software application that helps people with visual impairments or reading disabilities access printed or displayed text. Reading assistants may use optical character recognition to convert text images to speech, magnification to enlarge text, or other techniques to make written content accessible. Modern reading assistants range from dedicated devices to smartphone apps that use camera-based scene text recognition to read environmental text such as signs, labels, and documents aloud.

Category: assistive technology · blindness and low vision

Related: Optical Character Recognition · Scene Text Recognition · Screen Reader · Text-to-Speech

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