[msb-alumni] Fwd: [Nfbnet-master-list] KNFB Reader iPhone app announcement
- From: Terry Posont <terryt52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:18:16 -0500
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> From: James Gashel via Nfbnet-master-list <nfbnet-master-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: August 29, 2014 at 3:01:44 PM CDT
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> Subject: [Nfbnet-master-list] KNFB Reader iPhone app announcement
> Reply-To: James Gashel <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> CONTACT:
> Hai Nguyen Ly
> K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc.
> hai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Announcing KNFB Reader for iOS Release Plan
>
> Waltham, MA (August 29, 2014): Responding to worldwide inquiries, K-NFB
> Reading Technology and Sensotec have announced today that the release of the
> KNFB Reader iPhone app is being scheduled to coordinate with Apple's upgrade
> to its new iOS 8 operating system, expected to occur on or about September
> 10, 2014.
>
> Commenting on this decision, K-NFB's Vice President of Business Development,
> James Gashel said: "All of us at K-NFB and Sensotec are truly gratified with
> the worldwide interest expressed in the KNFB Reader iOS app. The app has
> been built for use with iPhone 5 or above, and running iOS 7 or higher. Our
> plan to coordinate its release with iOS 8 will best assure that the app
> works as intended for all users without any interruption or possible need to
> uninstall and upgrade due to Apple's newest operating system release."
>
> The KNFB Reader iOS app was first announced and demonstrated during the 2014
> convention of the National Federation of the Blind in the United States.
> Since that time excitement about the life-changing potential of this app has
> been building as word of its release has spread around the world. Designed
> to be fast, accurate, and efficient, the KNFB Reader iPhone app allows
> anyone to snap a picture of printed text, in several languages, and quickly
> have the words read aloud. The first release will initially support read
> aloud in 11 languages, with more to come. The app has been designed to
> particularly benefit blind, visually impaired, and print disabled users.
>
> Documents can be saved, stored, and shared with others as well. More
> information about the KNFB Reader for iOS app is available at
> http://www.knfbreader.com, with links to video and audio presentations,
> description of features, and more. Please visit the website for progress
> announcements as the days tick down to release of both iOS 8 and the KNFB
> Reader iOS app, and sign up for our email notifications as well.
>
> ###
>
> About K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc.
>
> Located in Waltham, Massachusetts, K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc. is a joint
> venture between Kurzweil Technologies, founded by Ray Kurzweil, a forty-year
> innovator and pioneer in assistive technologies and the inventor of the
> first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind; and the National
> Federation of the Blind, the largest, most influential membership
> organization of blind people in the United States. The company is known
> worldwide having launched the world's first hand-held text to speech reader
> in 2006 followed in 2008 by release of the world's first reading
> technology-the popular knfbReader Mobile software running on a cell phone.
> The company's latest product, the KNFB Reader iPhone app will be released in
> late summer 2014 and made available for purchase and download from Apple's
> App Stores throughout the world.
> About our development partner, Sensotec
> Located in Jabbeke, Belgium, Sensotec was founded in 1986 as a company
> active in the development of aids for visually impaired persons, assisting
> them so that their integration into society is not just a fanciful notion
> but to actually make it happen at home, at work or in education. Sensotec
> currently is a leading company for the manufacturing and distribution of
> assistive technologies for the visually and reading impaired. It's main
> products include the Reporter Smart Reading machine, the EuroSoft braille
> notetaker software, the localized versions of Kurzweil 1000 and Kurzweil
> 3000 software, Kurzweil 3000 Mobile, WoDy, Daisy apps... and the KNFB Reader
> App for iOS which is developed in collaboration with K-NFB Reading
> Technology, Inc.
> www.sensotec.be
>
>
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