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Answer for the clue "Reading device for the blind ", 9 letters:
optophone

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The optophone is a device, used by the blind, that scans text and generates time-varying chords of tones to identify letters. It is one of the earliest known applications of sonification . Dr. Edmund Fournier d'Albe of Birmingham University invented the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A device that transforms light into sound. 2 A device, used by the blind, that scans text and generates a different sound for each character

Usage examples of optophone.

Using the directory in the optophone, he located the type of store he needed.