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From: uph@fortune.UUCP (Umesh P. Hiriyannaiah)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Re: Commercial ventures
Message-ID: <4693@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 16:56:29 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.4693
Posted: Wed Nov 28 16:56:29 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 05:53:14 EST
References: <940@teddy.UUCP>
Reply-To: uph@fortune.UUCP (Umesh P. Hiriyannaiah)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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Summary: 

In article <940@teddy.UUCP> mlf@teddy.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum) writes:
>
>   My own idea for an indispensible consumer product takes note of the fact
>that many TV programs are now being broadcast "closed captioned."  These
>send character codes for the subtitles during the picture blanking interval.
>This means that the receiver has the subtitle text in machine-readable form
>(the decoder then generates the video for the characters).
>
>   Now, hardware to synthesize speech is available and, because of the
>prevalence of LSI chips, becoming cheaper and cheaper.  One could take the
>character codes corresponding to the subtitles, process them into words
>with a microprocessor, and convert the resulting words into speech.  Said
>another way, one could build a little box to speak the subtitles!
>
>   That way, even blind people could watch TV!
>
>						Matt

What's wrong with the volume control knob on the TV ?

						Umesh