Raymond Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil · Technology & Engineering
Invented omni-font OCR and text-to-speech systems.
1948, Queens, New York City, United States
United States
Raymond Kurzweil is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Invented omni-font OCR and text-to-speech systems.
Kurzweil invented the first omni-font optical character recognition and, with it, a print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, alongside pioneering text-to-speech and music synthesizers. He was born in New York to Jewish parents who had fled Austria before the Second World War.
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Invented omni-font OCR and text-to-speech systems.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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