http://www.knfbreader.com/

I "think" that is the N82 pictured. In any case, blind person uses the software added to the phone to take a picture which then reads the info to them.

Just spreading the news.

Yes, that is an N82. Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Very cool. If they can do image->text->speech you would think that image->text->translation (a la Babelfish) would be possible too. That would be all types of awesome for traveling. Nokia should develop that and make it exclusive to their phones/tablets.

I have flite for my n800. It does text->speech. Not that an n800 is friendly for a blind person. My 770 went WSOD, and became useless. not just nearly useless, but absolutely useless.

But a friend of mine has one of these boxes that lets him enter text by chords - one handed, and talks at him. He could type while the device and his hand were both in a pocket, and he was talking to me. I was jealous, a bit anyway.

I'd like to get speech recognition on the n800. One can already use it for audio notes. I haven't done this yet, but i'm considering using it with maemorecorder to do observational notes while at the telescope. It's dark. It's cold. Who wants to take off gloves to type?