Straining your eyes to read the tiny text on your mobile phone screen takes
all the fun out of surfing the Web. But one company thinks it has an answer:
Lernout & Hauspie of Ypres, Belgium, has developed a mobile phone that
translates on-screen text into speech so that you can listen in to the Internet.
And you can surf by speaking Web addresses into the phone. Last week, the
company showed off a prototype at the Demo 2000 technology conference in Indian
Wells, California.
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