HP work enables text-to-voice scan
If you've been following along, you've noticed that
Hewlett-Packard is aggressively trying to make money from
innovations from its HP Labs. We had the color-matching
technology for makeup users and the drug injections using printer
technology.
Now the world's largest PC-maker is licensing some of its
scanning technology to help create a device that will scan text,
recognize and translate it, and speak it aloud.
Mouscan, a South Korean company, along with HP, said Friday
that it will be using HP's scanning technology for its Voiscan
product, which is expected to go on sale next year. Voiscan
eventually will be sold to people with sight impairments,
foreign-language students and international travelers.
The scanning technology isn't exactly new for HP. It used it
for a product called CapShare, a handheld scanning device that
output images to a PC. That product, introduced in 1998, was
discontinued a few years later because it was just a portable
scanner.
But now, by combining the scanning technology with Mouscan's
ability to optically recognize text, translate it and vocalize
it, you have a new device about the size of a cell phone with a
lot of cool potential. Imagine you're a traveler trying to read
a foreign-language article, document or even a menu. You just
wave the Voiscan over the document for a few seconds and it
quickly organizes the text and begins reading it aloud. It also
can output to another device so you can see the translation.
This is nifty for travelers as well as students trying to pick
up another language, by presenting a quick way of understanding a
foreign language and seeing how it's used every day. The last
scenario is for vision-impaired people, who will be able to gain
information about printed documents that are not in braille.
It starts with HP's technology, which is able to piece together
a document by waving a scanning device over it. Give it a couple
seconds and several good passes and the image is assembled.
I'm still unsure how the whole thing will come off. The key
will be the speed and accuracy of the translation. I've tried
some free online translation programs, and they're not always
right or even close to capturing the exact text. But if Mouscan
can put it all together, I think they could have a real winner.
This article appeared on page C -- 1 of the San Francisco
Chronicle
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