Accessibility & Assistive Tech · Recorded milestone
Reading machine for the blind
Recorded year1976
The Kurzweil Reading Machine reads printed books aloud.
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- Omni-font OCRRecorded · 1974enables
Led to
- Screen readerRecorded · 1986enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.