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“neat to tho cum Blind students on the University of Waterloo campus need no longer rely on friends to read to them A recent addition to the campus library is a Kurzweil reading ma; chme for the blind, man- ufactured by Kurzweil Computer Products. Inc , of Cambridge Mass The machine elec- tromcally scans printed material that ts placed face down on a glass plate, Electronic stg- nals, triggered by the printing, are fed Into a computer that tS pro grammed to recogmze each letter. group the letters Into words. com- pute pronunciation and stress and produce synthetic speech. The user can regulate the machine's volume, speed up or slow down the words. repeat lines, spell out obscure words. or mark certain words or phrases for later re- ference, The machine was made available to the uw library by the Cana- dian National Institute for the Blind tKitchener district). It had been donated to CNIB by Mrs. Elizabeth Burton. Guelph. who is interest- ed in helping visually handicapped students. Along With the kuror weil there us also a brailler so that a blind student can convert .what the machine reads into a set of notes. m braille CNIB determined the UW library was the most appropriate loca- tion for it and turned it over to the university, officially. In a brief s3llllllllriiL?'iihitr, Ppodle ills a!“ rar' Boutique 15%OFF ALL MERCHANDISE _!itiii,tj(,C,,)l,j,t.i8,, Pp ' rr " ra' r il [ ll'sfi'i:1"ffff '. y UK ' . cr" ix SING Ps IP' ' tal c'l B SILVER POODLE BOUTIQUE 50‘ LAUREL ST. WATERLOO Open: Mortdar-tir_tyttte, 7:30 a. Now the blind can 'read' - ELEGANT FUN-FUR COATS FOR DOGS " Sizes AVIIIIIIIo ' HOODED BEDS FOR SMALL DOGS AND CATS . CAT SCRATCHERS AND TOYS q PET BEDS IN SOFT FUN-FDR AVIiIaIIIc in The. Sin: ' BOOKS " PET CARE ' GROOMING ACCESSORIES h-alt-tel-lt-IB-l-l---"."""""""""'"-'-'----"--'-, Alice Clair, University of Waterloo library staff member, demonstrates Kunweil reading machine. on UW campus. Machine will actually read a printed page for blind students. " is also available for use by the general public. ceremony last month rumpus will mean It IS Mlll68l8ll)llttl The umversrty"s li- more readily available brartan, Murray She, late In the evenings and t oherd, savs the machine on weekends t . a The university':; h- branan. Murray She- pherd. says the machine ts available to the gener- al public as well as to UW students. Further- more. since the univer- sity library IS open many more hours a week than any of the public libranes In the area its presence on The next Red Cross blood donor clinic will be held Wednesday. De- cember 3 at Grace Luth- eran Church, 136 Mar- garet Ave, m Kitchener. -Members of the Kitchener Rangers public as well as to or librarians report W students. Further- only about 200 of the ma. ore, Since the unwer- chines are m existence ty library IS open to date, Cost of each IS any more hours a about 325000. 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