Assistive Technologies for Reading Disabilities 1 Overview of Assistive Technologies for Reading Disabilities
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The poem is filled with fragments of foreign languages, ancient Greek, odd line breaks, and so on. The machine attacks it like someone with a gun at his head. The voice is metallic and fuzzy, a robot on bennies. It reads and reads and reads and reads. It’s practically air-starved as it heads for the end of the page. Another decade will pass before this machine can read Eliot, and it will be another decade before I unfold the white cane.
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