Hi, welcome to PATINS TV Featured Solutions.
I'm David Jackson with the PATINS Project.
Today, I'm with Greg Blackman from EYE can see
located in Indianapolis.
He will be highlighting new and improved
accessibility technologies for individuals
with low vision or blindness.
[electronic music]
Hello, I'm Greg Blackman with EYE can see, Incorporated.
We're a local provider of assistive technologies
for low vision and blindness here, in the state of Indiana.
We have a demo center located
in the Broadripple area of Indianapolis,
but we cover the entire state,
work with schools and agencies across the entire state
with the low vision and blindness needs.
I'm here today to talk to you
about a specific, new device we have
called the OrCam Read.
The OrCam Read is a new device by OrCam.
Some of you guys might be familiar
with the name of this company.
They have a device that's been out for quite a while now,
the MyEye which fits on your glasses
and does a lot of OCR and a lot of different
nice, wonderful things.
This is called the OrCam Read and this is a device
that we have clients of every level of vision loss
or not vision loss that have used.
We have individuals with zero vision loss
and individuals who are completely blind that use this.
So there's no necessary vision category for this device.
The beauty of this device, well, there's several,
but the one of them is a simplicity and ease of use.
The OrCam Read is very small, as you may
or may not be able to see.
It's about the size of a sharpie or a highlighter marker.
Very light, very portable, rechargeable battery,
so you take it on the go with you.
And essentially, this is a point and read device.
You point this at what you want to read,
hard copy material, and it'll read it out loud, okay?
So, I'm gonna demonstrate here, there's a couple
different ways, I'm gonna do my best
to demonstrate it so you can see.
But I have the device, and I'm gonna point it
at what I want it to read.
[clicking]
I'm gonna release.
[beeping]
[Prerecorded Voice] Smart reading.
Simply ask endless--
And it'll start reading out loud.
[Prerecorded Voice] Can read only the text
-that interests you. -I can hit that same
trigger button to stop it again.
So I'm gonna demonstrate that, again.
You may or may not be able to see, but when I
hold down on the device, it creates these red brackets.
[beeping]
[Prerecorded Voice] See tile your style.
The red brackets are created by a laser,
a light that shines up against the material.
So you can bracket the exact material
that you want it to read.
You can also change that to more of a laser pointer.
[clicking]
[beep]
[Prerecorded Voice] X. [ding]
I'll start right here.
-[clicking] -[beep]
[Prerecorded Voice] At tasks, instantly read from any--
The nice thing about the laser pointer
is you can quite literally point exactly
where you want it to start reading
and it will read from there and it'll read
the entire document.
So, you start wherever you want.
If I wanna ready, if I wanna start
at the third line down.
[clicking]
[Prerecorded Voice] Magnetic right. [ding]
Fourth line down.
[clicking]
[beep]
[clicking]
[beep]
[Prerecorded Voice] Tansing beats a culture. [ding]
Wherever you want, you point it
and it'll read out loud to you.
So, you've got a trigger button, volume buttons,
and really, those are the entire controls.
So, it's a device that's extremely easy to use and learn.
This is a device that, you know, we say
that users can learn within five minutes
of getting it out.
You turn it on, you point, you click,
and it starts to read.
A couple things about this.
The OCR in this device is pretty much instantaneous
as you can hear, and it's very accurate.
Those are the two things that you really want
in a text-to-speech OCR device.
This is also Bluetooth compatible
so if you have Bluetooth earbuds, you can connect it
and so that way, only you can hear it
and nobody else can, which is really nice and convenient.
But this is a device that, even though it was
designed originally for individuals with vision needs,
this is a device that is good for anybody
with any type of reading comprehension needs.
This is an OCR device that will read out loud to you
so if an individual has dyslexia or any other
type of reading comprehension and just wants help
with reading hard copy materials,
this is a great device for that.
One other thing is, you know, people ask
how close or far do I have to be from the material.
The OrCam Read has 20/20 vision, so if a person
with 20/20 vision can see that material,
the the OrCam Read can.
For example, if it's a billboard that's 100 yards away
but a person with 20/20 vision could read it,
all you'd have to do is point it
and it will still read that.
So you're not just talking about reading things up-close.
The OrCam Read can read anything that a person
with 20/20 vision could, as far as the distance is.
You just point, you click, and you read
pretty much instantaneously.
So again, this is the OrCam Read.
It's available with us, with EYE can see.
It's a wonderful device with anybody that has
any type of need to have text-to-speech.
If you have any questions, please feel free
to reach out to us.
Thanks a lot for your time.
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