"The Voice Stick is an advance optical character recognition scanner designed to scan books and read to you in a pleasant voice. It converts texts in books, newspapers, contracts, mail, business cards, etc., into voice information," inventor Sungwoo Park says. With a text scanner, memory chip and algorism system, character recognition technology , voice synthesizer technology (text to speech - TTS) , the voice stick is said to be "your best reading mate". A portable text scanning device for the visually impaired, scanning letters and converting Braille to voice information, translated into audio and brought to the user via both character recognition technology and voice synthesizer technology. Just like a friend reading to you at your bedside when you're not feeling well. from Vanessa The Google Girl. my skype name is rainbowstar123