Comments on: New robot reads out books loud for you, looks cute http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/12/new-robot-reads-out-books-loud-for-you-looks-cute/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:45:10 -0500 hourly 1 By: Ninomiya-kun Fights Robot Illiteracy [Robots] « Gizmo Geek – Tech and Gadgets News http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/12/new-robot-reads-out-books-loud-for-you-looks-cute/comment-page-1/#comment-1037180 Ninomiya-kun Fights Robot Illiteracy [Robots] « Gizmo Geek – Tech and Gadgets News Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:26:28 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=94852#comment-1037180 [...] Ninomiya-kun can analyze and distinguish about 2,300 Japanese characters from actual paper books. Impressive, but in an age where text-to-speech is already showing up on ebooks, one has to wonder if technology like this is really necessary. Currently we have like what…less than 1% literacy rate among robots? Reading is fundamental people. [Yomiuri via Crunchgear] [...] [...] Ninomiya-kun can analyze and distinguish about 2,300 Japanese characters from actual paper books. Impressive, but in an age where text-to-speech is already showing up on ebooks, one has to wonder if technology like this is really necessary. Currently we have like what…less than 1% literacy rate among robots? Reading is fundamental people. [Yomiuri via Crunchgear] [...]

]]> By: Пресата presata.com» Blog Archive » Ninomiya-kun Fights Robot Illiteracy [Robots] http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/12/new-robot-reads-out-books-loud-for-you-looks-cute/comment-page-1/#comment-1036641 Пресата presata.com» Blog Archive » Ninomiya-kun Fights Robot Illiteracy [Robots] Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:16:05 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=94852#comment-1036641 [...] Ninomiya-kun can analyze and distinguish about 2,300 Japanese characters from actual paper books. Impressive, but in an age where text-to-speech is already showing up on ebooks, one has to wonder if technology like this is really necessary. Currently we have like what…less than 1% literacy rate among robots? Reading is fundamental people. [Yomiuri via Crunchgear] [...] [...] Ninomiya-kun can analyze and distinguish about 2,300 Japanese characters from actual paper books. Impressive, but in an age where text-to-speech is already showing up on ebooks, one has to wonder if technology like this is really necessary. Currently we have like what…less than 1% literacy rate among robots? Reading is fundamental people. [Yomiuri via Crunchgear] [...]

]]> By: Tim Consolazio http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/12/new-robot-reads-out-books-loud-for-you-looks-cute/comment-page-1/#comment-1036203 Tim Consolazio Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:53:58 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=94852#comment-1036203 Next headline: "Random House sues Ninomiya-kun for text-to-speech infrigement." I mean, if Random House won't let a Kindle read to you, why would they let a robot? Next headline: “Random House sues Ninomiya-kun for text-to-speech infrigement.”

I mean, if Random House won’t let a Kindle read to you, why would they let a robot?

]]> By: Steve Jabs http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/12/new-robot-reads-out-books-loud-for-you-looks-cute/comment-page-1/#comment-1036200 Steve Jabs Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:52:53 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=94852#comment-1036200 They used to have a robot like this at Innovations in Epcot at Walt Disney World. Same idea. Camera eyes take in what's in front of it and then it deciphers what is text and reads it. The only thing that it couldn't do was turn the pages of a book. They used to have a robot like this at Innovations in Epcot at Walt Disney World. Same idea. Camera eyes take in what’s in front of it and then it deciphers what is text and reads it.

The only thing that it couldn’t do was turn the pages of a book.

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