{"id":34193,"date":"2005-09-14T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/09\/14\/like-an-invention-out-of-harry-potter-except-that-harrys-would-use-a-quill\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T10:00:17","slug":"like-an-invention-out-of-harry-potter-except-that-harrys-would-use-a-quill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050914-17\/?p=34193","title":{"rendered":"Like an invention out of Harry Potter, except that Harry’s would use a quill"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I heard this story from Swedish Radio<\/a>, it struck me as the sort of object that would exist in the imaginary world of Harry Potter. Raymond’s bad translation follows:<\/p>\n

Pen can help dyslexics<\/b> <\/p>\n

With today’s cheaper and cheaper microelectronics, it becomes possible for young inventors to produce new products without a lot of resources. A new idea for a smart-pen for speech synthesis and voice recognition is an example of this. <\/p>\n

The pen intended primarily for dyslexics has been produced by Johan Strömbom, a student at the Chalmers University of Technology<\/a>. It is a pen which produces speech from writing, and which converts your speech into text, explains Johan Strömbom. <\/p>\n

“One can read in text from a piece of paper, which is then heard in a headset, also one can speak text into the headset and have it written out,” says Johan Strömbom. <\/p>\n

He was inspired to invent the pen by his mother who teaches dyslexics. The pen has been nominated for an inventor’s prize at the Technical Fair<\/a> in October. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the Harry Potter version would be a quill instead of a pen, and it wouldn’t need a headset. Or batteries. <\/p>\n

Voice recognition also has a lot of promise for people other than dyslexics. Imagine if you could take a voice recording and send it through a recognizer to produce a transcript. I can read Swedish and German much better than I can listen to it, and having a transcript of a news report as it happens would improve my understanding tremendously. <\/p>\n

[Raymond is currently away; this message was pre-recorded.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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