Joseph E. Pechter

Hybrid Text to Speech 2000

Joseph E. & William H. Pechter

Vero Beach, FL
Age 18

Joseph and William are twin brothers whose invention helps blind and visually impaired people. Their program automatically reads any text on the computer or in the scanner with the touch of a single button. It recognizes more than 10,000 full words, and reads text with speech inflection based on punctuation marks.

Comic Art - Team: Joseph and William Pechter