Strictly speaking, a digital talking book is a multimedia representation of a print publication that provides access to the text through digitally recorded human voice or synthetic text-to-speech ...

So far though the talking machines are really under our control, even though we may not realise how long some of them have been with us. Now this one's been around for years. MACHINE: Twelve stone ...

Wojciech Kwiatkowski is a Member of the Educational Institute of Scotland - University Lecturer's Association Executive Committee. In 1969, Austrian-American writer Peter Drucker foretold a major ...

Back in 1968, Harold Williamson paid a visit to primary school kids in Liverpool to talk about their favourite books and reading habits. This clip is taken from Children Talking: At the Library ...

The talking machine recited whatever the professor told it to ... According to Frank Y. Grayson’s wonderful book, “Pioneers of Night Life on Vine Street,” the flim-flam men set up shop just south of ...

The biggest threat to jobs might not be physical robots, but intelligent software agents that can understand our questions and speak to us, integrating seamlessly with all the other programs we ...

If there was one book that describes ... The Soul of A New Machine had an impact on engineers at the time, and in the decades since. I found one example talking to the Hackaday writing staff ...

Its technology includes printers to convert text to braille, software that converts text to speech, and talking book machines that can read digital or Braille books aloud. Other technology ...

The board is by [Augusto Baffa] and is used in his Baffa-2 homebrew microcomputer, an RC2014-esque Z80 machine that runs CP/M. This terminal board is one of many peripheral boards that plug into ...

Explore the voting process, address concerns about voting machines and discuss the process of potential challenges to the ...