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A reading machine is a piece of assistive technology that allows blind people to access printed materials. It scans text, converts the image into text
Reading_machine
Subtopic of natural language processing in artificial intelligence
natural language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading comprehension. NLU has been considered an AI-hard problem. There is
Natural language understanding
Natural_language_understanding
Town and borough in Berkshire, England
Reading (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ RED-ing) is a borough in Berkshire, England, and the county town of Berkshire. It is Berkshire's largest town, with a total population
Reading,_Berkshire
Powered mechanical device
A machine is a thermodynamic system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial
Machine
Subset of artificial intelligence
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn
Machine_learning
City in Pennsylvania, US
Reading (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ RED-ing; Pennsylvania German: Reddin) is a city in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. The city had a population
Reading,_Pennsylvania
1948 book written by Norbert Wiener
an outline of the challenges presented by attempts to implement a reading machine for the blind. Wiener opens this chapter with the disclaimers that
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Cybernetics:_Or_Control_and_Communication_in_the_Animal_and_the_Machine
American computer scientist, author and futurist (born 1948)
Kurzweil Reading Machine, the device was large and covered an entire tabletop. Stevie Wonder heard about the demonstration of this new machine on The Today
Ray_Kurzweil
This is a list of Reading Rainbow episodes, hosted by longtime executive producer LeVar Burton. The show premiered on PBS on July 11, 1983. The final
List of Reading Rainbow episodes
List_of_Reading_Rainbow_episodes
English indie rock band
February 2026. "Reading Festival | Florence + The Machine". www.readingfestival.com. Retrieved 22 February 2026. "FLORENCE + THE MACHINE | Mad Cool Festival"
Florence_and_the_Machine
Casino gambling machine
gave the machine its name. By replacing ten cards with five symbols and using three reels instead of five drums, the complexity of reading a win was
Slot_machine
American transport company
acquisition by Conrail in 1976. Commonly called the Reading Railroad and logotyped as Reading Lines, the Reading Company was a railroad holding company for most
Reading_Company
Device used to project and magnify images in microform
eyepiece along the reading material, which at first were printed on long sheets of paper, then later film. While Admiral Fiske's reading machine, the "Fiskeoscope
Microfilm_reader
Machine which dispenses products to customers
maintaining vending machines. Also at about that time in England, Dixon Henry Davies and inventor John Mensy Tourtel patented a coin-operated reading lamp for use
Vending_machine
Association football club in England
Reading Football Club (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ RED-ing) is a professional football club based in Reading, Berkshire, England. They compete in EFL League One, the third
Reading_F.C.
History". ABBYY Technology. Retrieved 18 September 2016. J. Scott Hauger, Reading Machines for the Blind ( PDF ), Blacksburg, Virginia, Faculty of the Virginia
Timeline of optical character recognition
Timeline_of_optical_character_recognition
.50-caliber heavy machine gun
The M2 machine gun or Browning .50-caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by
M2_Browning
Rotating bookcase for reading multiple books at once
The bookwheel (also written book wheel and sometimes called a reading wheel) is a type of rotating bookcase that allows one person to read multiple books
Bookwheel
Pair of annual music festivals in England
The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously
Reading_and_Leeds_Festivals
Electromechanical device
power efficiency of the piezoelectric bimorphs made a battery-powered reading machine possible. The small size and weight of the bimorphs was also essential
Optacon
American rock band
They were also due to headline the Reading and Leeds Festivals, which would have been Rage Against the Machine's first UK appearance in 10 years, but
Rage_Against_the_Machine
Minor league baseball team
The Reading Fightin Phils (also called the Reading Fightins) are a Minor League Baseball team based in Reading, Pennsylvania, playing in the Northeast
Reading_Fightin_Phils
1984 sampler by Kurzweil Music Systems
demonstration of this new machine on The Today Show, and later became the user of the first production Kurzweil Reading Machine, beginning a long-term association
Kurzweil_K250
Reading longer, easier texts for extended periods of time
Extensive reading (ER) is the process of reading longer, easier texts for an extended period of time without a breakdown of comprehension, feeling overwhelmed
Extensive_reading
Set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums
Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, and mediums. Without prior knowledge, a practiced cold-reader can quickly
Cold_reading
1990 non-fiction book by Ray Kurzweil
respectively. Optical character recognition, which he used in the reading machine, and speech recognition are both featured centrally in the book as
The Age of Intelligent Machines
The_Age_of_Intelligent_Machines
University in Berkshire, England
University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as the University Extension College, Reading, an extension
University_of_Reading
The Reading Division is a rail line owned and operated by the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The line
Reading_Division
Communication between devices
Machine to machine (M2M) is direct communication between devices using any communications channel, including wired and wireless. M2M communication can
Machine_to_machine
American electronic musical instrument manufacturer
a developer of reading machines for the blind, and their company used many of the technologies originally designed for reading machines, and adapted them
Kurzweil_Music_Systems
Material-removing manufacturing process
Machining is a manufacturing process where a desired shape or part is created using the controlled removal of material, most often metal, from a larger
Machining
1994 French film directed by François Dupeyron
mind of those attached to it. Lacroix has been constructing his mind-reading machine in secret. His marriage to his wife Marie has deteriorated and he is
The_Machine_(1994_film)
American children's television series
Reading Rainbow is an American educational children's television series designed to encourage a love of books and reading. The original series aired on
Reading_Rainbow
System developed by Google to increase fluency and accuracy in Google Translate
non–English-language trials". Only one disagreement between reviewers reading machine-translated trials was due to a translation error. Since many medical
Google Neural Machine Translation
Google_Neural_Machine_Translation
2008 film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy espionage film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It follows a recently jobless
Burn_After_Reading
Computation model defining an abstract machine
state(qi) the machine is currently in and the symbol(aj) it is reading on the tape (the symbol currently under the head), tells the machine to do the following
Turing_machine
Book published in digital form
book by creating the "talkies" and, as a result, reading should find a new medium: A simple reading machine which I can carry or move around, attach to any
Ebook
Harbourfront Centre Reading Series Archived 2010-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto. Tree Reading Series. Ottawa. The Reading Series at St. Jerome's
Reading_series
American institute for research on spoken and written language
speech synthesis and development of an early working prototype of a reading machine for the blind to developing the landmark concept of phonemic awareness
Haskins_Laboratories
Mechanical devices used to simulate human sexual activity
film Burn After Reading, US Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer builds a pedal-powered "dildo chair". The pornographic website Fucking Machines has been featured
Sex_machine
American poet
Readies (1930) and Words (1931), for his reading machine and the processed texts that would revolutionize reading. With the economic depression in the 1930s
Bob_Brown_(writer)
Device that optically scans images, printed text
Kurzweil Reading Machine, which was the first flatbed scanner with a charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging element. The Kurzweil Reading Machine was invented
Image_scanner
instrument designed to revolutionize the reading of books." The article goes on to describe the Fiske Reading Machine as: . . . a tiny affair. It consists
Bradley_A._Fiske
American linguist
developed a project where he was to produce the sound output of a reading machine for the blind, a device that could scan, print, and produce a selective
Alvin_Liberman
Golf tournament formerly on the PGA Tour
Country Club Archived 2016-10-28 at the Wayback Machine at The Golf Association of Philadelphia site "Reading Country Club History". Archived from the original
Reading_Open
Artificial production of human speech
A Votrax synthesizer was included in the first generation Kurzweil Reading Machine for the Blind. Text-to-speech (TTS) refers to the ability of computers
Speech_synthesis
Tool to indicate whether a surface is level or plumb
(US2316777A)". Google Patents. Retrieved 2 August 2018. "Beginner's Guide to Reading Machine Shop Numbers & Values". 24 November 2021. "Sensitivity & Accuracy of
Spirit_level
Mathematical model of computation
science, a finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: automata), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model
Finite-state_machine
Ability to read and understand text
Reading comprehension is the ability to process written text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows. Reading comprehension
Reading_comprehension
Non-metric unit of length
an inch)...", Dan Nelson, The CNC Toolbox, p89 "Beginner's Guide To Reading Machine Shop Numbers & Values". machinistguides.com. Amazon Services LLC Associates
Thousandth_of_an_inch
integrated circuits and semiconductors, and for development of the Optacon reading machine for the blind. Linvill and his identical twin brother William went
John_G._Linvill
Device used to perform financial transactions
An automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions
ATM
Grade II listed state grammar school in the United Kingdom
Reading School is a state grammar school for boys with academy status in the English town of Reading, the county of Berkshire. It traces its history back
Reading_School
Computer recognition of visual text
technologies involving telegraphy and creating reading devices for the blind. In 1914, Emanuel Goldberg developed a machine that read characters and converted them
Optical_character_recognition
Machine used to stitch fabric
A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution
Sewing_machine
Machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials
A machine tool is a machine for handling or machining metal or other rigid materials, usually by cutting, boring, grinding, shearing, or other forms of
Machine_tool
Learning disability affecting reading
either reading, writing, or speaking. Different people are affected to different degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly
Dyslexia
Device for reading e-books
written by Bob Brown titled The Readies, which describes "a simple reading machine which I can carry or move around, attach to any old electric light
E-reader
Suffragan bishop in the Church of England
Suffragan See of Reading - 2003 Archived August 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 9 June 2008. Suffragan See of Reading - 2004 Archived June
Bishop_of_Reading
1968 studio album by The Soft Machine
The Soft Machine (also titled Volume One as a reissue) is the debut album by the British psychedelic rock band Soft Machine, released in December 1968
The Soft Machine (Soft Machine album)
The_Soft_Machine_(Soft_Machine_album)
Careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text
In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. It emphasizes the particular over the general
Close_reading
1925 film
Bertram Atkey. The screenplay concerns a wealthy man who acquires a mind-reading machine, but is soon horrified to discover what people are really thinking
The_Secret_Kingdom_(film)
American computer scientist (born 1964)
has been focused on basic problems in the study of intelligence, machine reading, machine learning and web search. Past projects include Internet Softbots—the
Oren_Etzioni
Former British prison
HM Prison Reading, popularly known as Reading Gaol, is a former prison located in Reading, Berkshire, England. The prison was operated by Her Majesty's
HM_Prison_Reading
Newspaper in Reading, Pennsylvania
at the Wayback Machine." Reading, Pennsylvania: Reading Eagle, May 17, 2019. Mekeel, David. "After 151 years of local ownership, Reading Eagle readers
Reading_Eagle
Recognition Systems, one of the earliest optical character reading companies that used machine learning to recognize most fonts, before founding Benetech
Jim_Fruchterman
Set of methods for supervised statistical learning
In machine learning, support vector machines (SVMs, also support vector networks) are supervised max-margin models with associated learning algorithms
Support_vector_machine
Village and suburb in Berkshire, England
Caversham is a village and a suburb of Reading in Berkshire, England, located directly north of Reading town centre across the River Thames. Caversham
Caversham,_Reading
Electrostatic generator
The Wimshurst machine or Wimshurst influence machine is an electrostatic generator capable of generating high voltages. It was developed between 1880 and
Wimshurst_machine
Heavy machine gun
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army
Vickers_machine_gun
American non-profit organization
to provide reading machines for blind people. During the period 1989–2000, over 35,000 reading machines were sold in sixty countries, reading twelve different
Benetech
Assistive technology software company
Kurzweil Reading Machine, a device that could optically scan printed text and read it aloud — one of the first practical OCR-based reading aids for the
Kurzweil_Educational_Systems
Action performed by computers
audio and video input ports. Reading is one of the core functions of a Turing machine. A read cycle is the act of reading one unit of information (e.g
Reading_(computer)
Computerized translation between natural languages
to imagine a literary-translation machine less complex than the human brain itself, with all its knowledge, reading, and discrimination." See the annually
Machine_translation
American actor (born 1973)
Horizons) Readings Truth or Consequences (Staged Reading) The Fool (2002) (Staged Reading) White People (Staged Reading) The Scholar (Staged Reading) Lend
T._R._Knight
Novelty building in Reading, Pennsylvania, US
The Reading Pagoda is a novelty building, built atop the south end of Mount Penn overlooking Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. It has been a symbol
Pagoda (Reading, Pennsylvania)
Pagoda_(Reading,_Pennsylvania)
Type of political group
In the politics of representative democracies, a political machine is a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives
Political_machine
Early literacy intervention
Reading Recovery is a controversial short-term intervention approach designed for English-speaking children aged five or six, who are the lowest achieving
Reading_Recovery
Finite-state machine whose output values are determined only by its current state
Moore machine is a finite-state machine whose current output values are determined only by its current state. This is in contrast to a Mealy machine, whose
Moore_machine
Type of company
machines Printing machine factory Road machines factory, Steam machine factory Machine Machine industry Machine shop Machine tool Machine tool builder Lintsen
Machine_factory
Overview of and topical guide to machine learning
outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, machine learning: Machine learning (ML) is a subfield of artificial intelligence within
Outline_of_machine_learning
Danish light machine gun
The Madsen is a light machine gun that Julius A. Rasmussen and Theodor Schouboe designed and proposed for adoption by Colonel Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen
Madsen_machine_gun
Reading globe groups are voluntary groups which were set up in the mid-1990s by Reading Borough Council in Reading, Berkshire, England, following the undertaking
Reading_globe_groups
Former American beer brewing establishment
The Reading Brewing Company was an American brewery established by Philip Bissinger in 1886. Headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania, it ceased operations
Reading_Brewing_Company
Brand name of embosing machines
on contemporary credit cards) marking style was preferred for ease of reading and maintaining a flat surface on the back of the plate. Military tags
Graphotype_(machine)
Use of fMRI to decode brain stimuli
utilizing machine learning and generative AI technology. Another 2024 study reported the reconstruction of images from EEG. Brain-reading has been suggested
Brain-reading
Subsector of the industry
The machine industry or machinery industry is a subsector of the industry, that produces and maintains machines for consumers, the industry, and most
Machine_industry
Educational mechanical device
adult) and instructional purposes (e.g., reading and music). The instructional potential of the teaching machine stemmed from several factors: it provided
Teaching_machine
Telecommunications industry news website
Wayback Machine, September 10, 2013 "Stephen Saunders - Founder, Light Reading". Folio Mag. 31 March 2009. Retrieved 14 March 2012. "Light Reading Co-Founder
Light_Reading
German cipher machine during World War II
The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication
Enigma_machine
Rotor cipher machine
(NEue MAschine) ("new machine"), also designated the T-D (Tasten-Druecker-Maschine) ("key-stroke machine"), was a 10-wheel rotor machine designed by the Swiss
NEMA_(machine)
Programmable machine that processes data
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation). Modern digital
Computer
Technology and methods used to provide imaging-based automatic inspection and analysis
Machine vision is the technology and methods used to provide imaging-based automatic inspection and analysis for such applications as automatic inspection
Machine_vision
Australian geophysicist
Anya Marie Reading is a professor of Geophysics and Associate Head of Research in the School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania. Reading completed
Anya_Reading
Software that emulates an entire computer
In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and
Virtual_machine
Island on the River Thames
Caversham Reading RG4". www.houseprices.co.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2011. Local Photos — View Island Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Caversham
Heron_Island,_Berkshire
Public library system in Virginia
library for the blind and physically handicapped." In 1981 a Kurzweil Reading Machine was added to the offered services. In 1993, an Arkenstone Open Book
Arlington_Public_Library
American nonprofit organization
program requiring minimal training Archived 2011-10-11 at the Wayback Machine. Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 35, Number 4; Oct-Dec. 2000. "SMART Program
SMART_Reading
Abstract machine used to study decision problems
oracle tape reading and writing symbols; two special states: the ASK state and the RESPONSE state. From time to time, the oracle machine may enter the
Oracle_machine
First novel published by Kurt Vonnegut in 1952
limousine: that the writer's "anti-machine" novel cannot get a passing "readability quotient" under the reading machine's scoring algorithm. However, the
Player_Piano_(novel)
READING MACHINE
READING MACHINE
Boy/Male
English
Son of Reed.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
Son of the Red-haired
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Leeming.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Reading.German and Dutch : patronymic from any of the Germanic personal names with the first element rÄd ‘counsel’, ‘advice’.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
Son of the Red-haired
Surname or Lastname
English
English : presumably a variant of Reddan or Reading.
Surname or Lastname
English (Hampshire and the Isle of Wight)
English (Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) : habitational name from a place on the Isle of Wight named Brading, from Old English brerd ‘hillside’ + -ingas ‘dwellers at’, i.e. ‘(settlement of) the dwellers on the hillside’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; perhaps an altered form of Eddings.
Boy/Male
British, English
Son of the Red-haired
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from an Old English personal name C̄ting, a derivative of C̄ta (see Kite).Irish (of Norman origin) : Americanized form of Céitinn, a Gaelicized form of de Ketyng (probably a habitational name), which was taken to southern Ireland by Anglo-Norman settlers.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. Probably a respelling of Irish Hearon.Possibly also an altered form of German Haering (see Hering).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Redden.Irish : variant of Roden.German and Dutch : variant of Redding 2.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Reading 2.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from a Germanic personal name beginning with the element gÄ“r, gÄr ‘spear’ (see Geary 2).Probably an Americanized spelling of German Gehring.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Reading.Dutch and German : variant of Redding 2.
Surname or Lastname
English (Avon)
English (Avon) : unexplained; possibly a variant of Melling.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Feering, a village in Essex, named from the Old English personal name Fēra + -ingas ‘people of’, i.e. ‘(settlement of) Fēra’s people’.Americanized spelling of German Viering, a topographic name for someone from a swampy area, from a derivative of Germanic vir ‘bog’, ‘swamp’, or a variant of Fehring 2.
Boy/Male
English
Son of Reed.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the county seat of Berkshire, which gets its name from Old English Rēadingas ‘people of Rēad(a)’, a byname meaning ‘red’.English : topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, an unattested Old English ryding.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Reading.
READING MACHINE
READING MACHINE
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Harsh; A Sword
Boy/Male
Hindu
Life giving, Another name for Vishnu and, Lord Brahma
Girl/Female
Biblical
Overmuch captivity, or sitting.
Girl/Female
Indian, Tamil
Bird
Biblical
Canaanite
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Keeper of the sacred book
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Yuwbal, JUBAL means "river, stream." In the bible, this is the name of a son of Lamech.Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Major 1.
Female
Icelandic
 Scandinavian form of Icelandic FrÃða, FRIDA means "peace." Compare with another form of Frida.
Biblical
one who is broken; who fears
READING MACHINE
READING MACHINE
READING MACHINE
READING MACHINE
READING MACHINE
n.
Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
n.
The act or process of generating or bearing.
n.
An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
n.
That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.
n.
The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.
n.
Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
a.
Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
n.
The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
a.
Guiding; directing; controlling; foremost; as, a leading motive; a leading man; a leading example.
n.
The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
a.
Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing.
n.
The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.
a.
Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
a.
Bending or leaning backward.
a.
Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
n.
The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.
a.
That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.
a.
Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.
n.
Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.