[msb-alumni] Re: Fwd: [Nfbnet-master-list] KNFB Reader iPhone app announcement
- From: Toni <coffey41@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 14:04:48 -0400
I am going to wait till the bugs are all worked out. That may take a while.
Because of how much it costs. There is always politics it seems like.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 30, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, I don't know of demos of any app. It'll have to be darn good to be worth
aht price; you can get real good results now if you have a standscan or
scanbox; even better than using a desk scanner if you have the lighting
accessory.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard McKinley
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 11:11 AM
Subject: [msb-alumni] Re: Fwd: [Nfbnet-master-list] KNFB Reader iPhone app
announcement
I'd heard there won't be a demo of the app. I'm hoping this isn't true. If
the app is priced at $99.00 then I'd like to try it before buying it. Guess
we'll see.
> On Aug 30, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Terry Posont <terryt52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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
>> To: nfbnet-master-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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