Jim Fruchterman interviewed at TOC 2011
summary
Benetech organizes as a nonprofit to fix market failure by funding accessibility work commercial firms won’t do, using OCR roots to power Bookshare with 125,000 students and roughly 100,000 titles searchable. It built Read2Go, an iPad/iPhone app with high‑quality text‑to‑speech, 30‑second downloads, text resizing and spotlighting each word synced to audio for dyslexic readers, priced about $119.95. The group pushes social or hybrid DRM so text can be used for braille/large print and targets an Apple approval release around March–April.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00What is the motivation behind Benetech
- 0:22What are some of the major areas where access is coming up short
- 2:23What are the first things publishers need to implement to address the shortfalls
- 3:40What is Read to Go
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