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ROK Acquires Text-To-Speech Company, Textic

Leading text-to-speech service to be re-launched as ‘ROK Talk’ for websites with mobile phone and eBook functionality to be added.
London, Wednesday 11th November 2009: ROK Entertainment Group, the UK-based mobile technology, applications and services company has today announced the acquisition of leading text-to-speech provider Textic.
The Textic services, originally designed to automatically convert typed words on [...]

Google Settlement with Authors, Publishers Will Have Positive Results for the Blind

Terms of Proposed Settlement Agreement Will Revolutionize Blind People’s Access to Books
The National Federation of the Blind, the nation’s leading advocate for access to information by the blind, announced today that the recent settlement between Google and authors and publishers over the Google Books project, if approved by the courts, will have a profound [...]

National Federation of the Blind Conducts Successful Nationwide Protests Against Movie Blindness

Urges Miramax, Disney to Pull Film from Theaters
In the wake of a successful nationwide action against the Miramax film Blindness, which consisted of seventy-two protests in front of cinemas showing the film in thirty-seven states, the National Federation of the Blind today urged Miramax and its parent company, the Walt Disney Company, to remove [...]

National Federation of the Blind and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Announce Agreement with Apple to Make iTunes Fully Accessible

The National Federation of the Blind and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley today announced a cooperative agreement with Apple, Inc. to make Apple’s iTunes software, iTunes Store, and iTunes U more accessible to the blind. On September 9, Apple released iTunes 8, which contains significant accessibility improvements. Under today’s agreement, Apple will make iTunes U [...]

First Cell Phone that Reads to the Blind and Dyslexic Released by Joint Venture of Kurzweil Technologies and the National Federation of the Blind

Tiny Device Will Change Lives for Millions
K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc., a company combining the research and development efforts of the National Federation of the Blind and Kurzweil Technologies, Inc., today unveils an exciting product line that will revolutionize access to print for anyone who has difficulty seeing or reading print, including the blind and [...]

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