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Gilles Pepin, President
of HumanWare Canada, is proud that HumanWare is
being recognized as the leader of the Digital Talking
Book industry.
The TEDC is a division of the Detroit Metro Convention + Visitors Bureau.
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The new flash-based player will be lightweight, portable, and durable
enough to survive years
of heavy use; it will be built and freely distributed
to over 700,000 individuals in the US who benefit
from having access to the
latest books and magazines in an accessible format.
HumanWare has
designed and commercialized digital talking book players
since 1999 under the Victor Reader product
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HumanWare is the world leader in
providing listening devices for NISO and
Daisy material globally with more than 100,000 players in
operation around the
world today. NLS has approximately 730,000 audio cassette
players in use
worldwide today and maintains an inventory of more than
23 million cassettes containing audio books
and magazines that it circulates
free of charge to blind and physically handicapped readers.blind org
In collaboration
with Battelle NFB and Trace Center HumanWare will design the next generation talking book player for
NLS
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HumanWare offers the widest
choice of both hardware and software playback devices starting
with the
smallest and most affordable hardware player in the industry (Victor Reader
Vibe) and
offering adapted solutions for students, professionals and the
elderly with the Victor Reader Classic
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We have great confidence in their capabilities and we know that the
product they design will
be a success for our patrons," says Frank Kurt Cylke,
NLS director. The BrailleNote is the best-known
solution in the notetaker market
today, and this market will be expanded with the introduction of
Maestro.sport playing
About NLS
NLS is in the midst of a full-scale transition from analog
audio
casssettes to DTBs, a project that will involve creating 20,000 DTBs (10,000
converted from
cassette and 10,000 recorded digitally) and developing a
digital playback device to replace the four
-track tape player that has been in
service for nearly three decades.
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Products
like the SmartView video magnifier and more
recently myReader - the world's first low vision auto
-reader - are redefining
the way people look at low vision while the Victor Reader family of digital
talking book players has been at the forefront of the industry since its
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Headquartered
in
Columbus, Ohio, it develops and commercializes technology and manages
laboratories for customers
.
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"We are
excited to participate in the first redesign of the NLS audiobook player in
the last
30 years and to contribute HumanWare's and our partner's experience
toward the launch of a revolutionary
player to serve the visually impaired and
print-disabled community", he said.m.theworldiscoming.impaired sport
"This project will enable the blind to actively participate in the
development of the next generation
audio book player", said Dr.ibsa field
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Digital Talking Books
revolutionize the reading experience for people
who have reading disabilities
in providing advanced features such as ease of navigation, better audio
quality and the possibility to enter bookmarks. Marc Maurer,
President of the National Federation
of the Blind, "our community has an
opportunity to contribute directly to this important project
".
About HumanWare
HumanWare combines two of the industry's most innovative companies
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VisuAide and Pulse Data International are recognized as world leaders in their
respective fields
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Additionally, a complete book
will fit on a single flash memory card. Battelle, with the national labs it manages or
co-manages
, oversees 19,000 staff members and conducts $3 billion in annual
research and development.
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Finally, the companies produce the world's only commercialised
GPS based
orientation solutions for the blind - Trekker and BrailleNote GPS. Battelle innovations
include the development of the
office copier machine (Xerox), pioneering work on compact disc technology
,
medical technology advancements, and fiber optic technologies.rule sport
"We are excited to have brought
this exceptional group of companies on
board.detroitsynergy.org impaired
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MONTREAL, March 18 -
HumanWare, the new business issued from
the recent merger of VisuAide and Pulse Data International
, is pleased to
announce that it has been contracted by the Federal Technology Service of the
General
Services Administration, on behalf of the National Library Service for
the Blind and Physically Handicapped
(NLS) as a member of a consortium led by
Battelle and involving the National Federation of the Blind
and the Trace
Center to design and develop their next generation of digital talking book
players
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