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Device reads print;
goofs no problem
Alabama pilot lands his biplane
between cars on Interstate 20
THE BATTALION Page 7
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1978 j
United Press International
LANSING, Mich. — It speaks in
a monotone, occasionally mis
pronounces words and reads large
numbers digit-by-digit.
But the sounds are beautiful to
the young students of the Michigan
School for the Blind, which recently
received the $50,000 reading
machine from the U.S. Office of
Education.
The school’s machine, displayed
for news media last week, is one of
40 produced thus far by Kurzweil
Computer Products.
The reading machine should in
crease the selection of books availa
ble to the blind because they will
not have to wait for readers, talking
books or Braille versions of modem
novels and texts.
The machine, with a scanning
“eye,” reads lines of print by recog
nizing the shape of letters, then
verbalizes them through its robot
like voice.
Various controls enable students
to change the pitch and speed of
their mechanical reader, repeat
words and sentences, punctuate
phrases and even spell out unfamil
iar words.
Kurzweil spokesman Gayle
Po we |L who is visually impaired
Sai< ^’ j T ^ e reac ^ in g machine is not
intended to replace records and
^ * s valuable because it
will increase the independence and
privacy of the blind.
AVith the machine, we can read
our own bills and mail and not have
to have someone read it for us.”
The machine obeys the rules of
English phonetics, but sometimes
gets confused.
Read, for example, always is
pronounced “red.” But students
quickly learn to adjust to the little
goofs and to the unhuman voice.
One observer at the demonstra
tion said getting the hang of the
machine is something like listening
to a British movie. “For the first few
minutes it might as well be speaking
Chinese, but pretty soon, it sounds
normal.”
The machine’s photo eye can read
just about any print that is put be
fore it and Powell said it is hoped
future models will be able to read
handwriting as well.
United Press International
PELL CITY, Ala. — Le Grand
Bud Dawes of Birmingham joined
the eastbound traffic on Interstate
20 Saturday, which was not unusual
in itself — except Dawes was in an
airplane.
Dawes was flying his homebuilt
biplane from Birmingham to Tal
ladega when the spinner on the
propeller flew off, knocking 18
inches off one propeller blade.
Dawes landed his plane between
two eastbound cars about three
miles west of Pell City. No one was
injured and the disabled aircraft
made the rest of the trip to Tal
ladega behind a wrecker.
“I have been flying for about 30
years as a hobby,” Dawes said. “It is
the seventh airplane that I have
built.
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Begin expected to shun
latest Sadat proposal
United Press International
Prime Minister Menachem Begin pledged to respond Monday to
President Anwar Sadat’s latest peace demands, but Israeli govern
ment sources said the response would be a flat refusal.
The sources told UPI that Begin has decided to turn down Sadat’s
demands for establishing a timetable by which residents of the oc
cupied West Bank and Gaza Strip would receive political autonomy.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd delivered a letter from
Sadat to Begin Friday, that sources described as conciliatory, but
which did not indicate any change in the Egyptian position.
But Israeli national television said the renewed direct personal
contact between Begin and Sadat may be the only real progress that
was achieved in the exchange.
Begin promised a reply to the newest Egyptian initiative within 24
hours and Khalil, who was scheduled to leave Washington Saturday,
extended his stay until Monday to await the response.
The negotiations, which opened Oct. 12, bogged down three
weeks ago because of Israel’s opposition to the Egyptian demand for
linkage to a settlement of the Palestinian problem.
Khalil met with President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance, and conferred Sunday by long-distance telephone with Sadat
in Cairo.
Egypt is believed to favor the American compromise proposal to
hold elections for an autonomous administrative council in the oc
cupied West Bank and Gaza Strip by December 1979.
Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in an inter
view televised Sunday criticized Carter for a “complete retreat” from
his position in favor of a Palestinian “homeland. ”
But Arafat predicted that no Middle East peace could last without
the involvement of the Soviet Union. “Without the second super
power, you cannot have a complete peace in this area,” he said.
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