To our customers, partners and friends who strive, like us, to enhance learning and expand literacy, our mission is to positively change the lives of students who struggle to learn. In 2005, Kurzweil Educational Systems was acquired by Cambium Learning©, now known as Cambium Learning Group, the largest provider of educational materials in the area of special education. Edited rich text format files into plain electronic text by performing various tasks and functions in Microsoft Word, Image Capture Plus, ABBYY FineReader, and Kurzweil 3000. All products incorporate a robust set of easy-to-use features for reading scanned or digital text, writing, study and test-taking accommodations. Kurzweil Educational currently offers Kurzweil 1000 for Windows©, Kurzweil 3000© for Windows and Macintosh. Today, the company is recognized as the leading developer of text-to-speech technology for people with learning disabilities and those who are blind or visually impaired. was founded in 1996 from the roots of Ray Kurzweil's Kurzweil Reading Machine. ![]() Kurzweil Assistive Reading Software Today I hope to continue playing a role in harnessing this potential. Have great potential to assist human expression and to expand creativityįor all of us. As amplifiers of human thought, computers With regard to the major physical and sensoryĭisabilities, I believe that in a couple of decades, we will come to herald The handicaps associated with disabilities using AI technologies has longīeen a personal goal of mine. With the broad and flexible intelligence of the disabled person. ![]() The restricted intelligence of the machine works effectively Which can provide effective solutions for the narrow deficits of mostĭisabled persons. The intelligence of our present-day intelligent computers is narrow, We're not creating cybernetic geniuses today not There is a fortuitous matchīetween the capabilities of contemporary computers and the needs of aĭisabled person. Have brought me the greatest gratification. It is the applications of the technology benefiting disabled people that ![]() It essentially does what a reading teacher does - reading to a pupil while Out loud while highlighting the image of the print as it is being read. Just as it appears in the original document (e.g., book, magazine), withĪll of the color graphics and pictures intact. The reading disabilities version, called the Kurzweil 3000, scans a printed document, displays the page In 1996, working together with a brilliant team of scientists and managers who had earlier worked for the original Kurzweil Computer Products or its successor company, I founded a new reading technology company called Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc., which has developed a new generation of print-to-speech reading software for sighted persons with reading disabilities, as well as a new reading machine for blind people. In this excerpt from The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Ray Kurzweil recalls the history of Kurzweil Educational Systems.
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