Re: Circuit that produces a tingling sensation in the fingers.

From: Guy Macon (_see.web.page__at__www.guymacon.com_)
Date: 12/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:41:30 +0000

John Woodgate wrote:

>The Royal National Institute for the Blind in UK has done an enormous
>amount of work on computer aids for blind people. Quite a few years ago,
>they has voice-operated writers (needed a lot of training, so not viable
>commercially) and readers. The readers would run at speeds far higher
>than normal speech and people were trained to understand at those
>speeds.

I have seen ads for devices that speed up speech, either by
removing space between words or by playing it faster without
changing the pitch. I am pretty sure that some local radio
stations do this on some commercials - I don't think that a
human can talk that fast.

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