Facinating! For $500, I think it's worth buying just to give it a go.
I filled out the contact form as well. From the TTS in the video, I
can tell that that is definitely the Google voice. So it is an
android OS, not iOS. Maybe they just use the word voiceover when they
mean speech synthesis.
Also, running the numbers, if it can activate up to 1900 braille dots
at a time, assuming an eight-dot cell, you get 237.5 braille cells.
Assuming a line length of 20 cells (About right for a tablet), this is
11 lines of text. Not too shabby. Anyway, I'm game to give it a shot
once it's ready.
Catherine
On 1/6/17, Ana G <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> Here's a YouTube video on the Blitab, a smart tablet that is also a
> multi-line braille display. It's being featured at CES 2017. The video
> doesn't say, but I think I read somewhere else that it's close to a full
> braille page in size. The video does say that it'll cost about five
> hundred dollars. What's a little confusing to me is what operating
> system is being used. During the demonstration, the presenter keeps
> referring to Voiceover, but during the Q-and-A, he says it runs on
> Android, which makes more sense in terms of licensing. The TTS is not
> loud enough for me to be sure.
>
>
> After the demo, judges talk about the product's pros and cons. There
> discussion is interesting because it assumes that things like Google
> Home and Amazon Echo can take the place of braille. In other words, they
> seem to think of scenarios that don't involve school or work.
>
>
> If anyone handles one, please let us know. I visited the website, but
> the preorder link only opens up a contact form.
>
>
> Here's the CES video on the Blitab:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF3ZP5ze5jU
>
>
>
> Ciao
>
>
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