Amedia Corporation

"YMB", the international talking and magnifying reading machine

Great improvement of life and late studies for the visually impaired!　Amedia is looking for dealers in all countries.

YMB reads printed material with voice and displays it big on the screen. It is the reading and magnifying machine born in Japan. Its interface languages are English, Japanese and Chinese.

YMB

YMB Q&A

YMB User's Manual

Main uses

  • READING

    • It reads, with a clear voice, ordinary printed books, such as the books sold at bookstores and stored in libraries.
    You can save in it a entire book and attach to it a title easy to understand.
    You can keep up to about 1000 entire books in it.
    In Japan, you can see it in many Braille libraries and public libraries.

  • Arranging printed material

    • Not only book contents can be saved; you can save all kinds of printed material.
    You can also save the images scanned as they are.
    In Japan, you can see its Japanese interface version also at the counters of some city halls.

  • Checking mail

    • You can read the mail you receive and know its contents.

  • assort cds

    • With YMB, you can also play cds and dvds.
    Before starting playing, it announces, with voice,what kind of cd has been inserted: music cd, data cd, dvd, or daisy-recorded cd.
    In case of playing dvds, a screen is required.

  • communicating with a pc

    • The contents read may be saved to USB memory as MP3 files or text files.
    By connecting that usb memory to your pc, you can copy and edit the information saved by YMB and do with it as you wish.
    In Japan, many visually impaired people own YMB personally and use it for late studies or for other tasks of daily life.

functions:

Text-reading mode

Scanning and recognition are very fast and the contents of the scanned material is read out in a voice very easy to understand.

  • Scanning speed: 12 seconds
  • Recognition speed: 14 seconds in average
  • Recognisable characters/languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean
  • Reading (pronouncing) languages: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean

By changing the settings, you can make it to change pronunciation according to language when Simplified Chinese and English, Traditional Chinese and English, Japanese and English or Korean and English are written in one same page.

Magnifying mode

In this mode, the scanned images are displayed on the screen.

In case of a 19-inch screen, images may be magnified up to 30 times.

Also contrast and background may be adjusted, so that people with low vision can see the images easier.

In this mode, magnified text may be read out section by section by pressing certain keys.

CD mode

YMB plays music cds and dvds.

It can also play DAISY cds. When playing multimedia DAISY cds, text and images are displayed on the screen to support people with reading disabilities to read books.

Compatible with DAISY2.0 and DAISY2.02.

USB mode

Text data (Word, Excel, PDF, html, epub, etc) and/or audio data (MP3, WAV, WMV, MIDI) saved in USB memory may be played by YMB.

Price

Price of the main unit: USD2600

There are some accessories sold separately, such as compatible screen/tv and many USB devices/media.

Specifications of the main unit

Size 388 x 260 x 110 mm (L x W x H)
Weight 6.6kg
Power Consumption 30 W
Guarantee: one year
  • Stereo mini-earphone jack
  • DVD drive
  • PC monitor interface and USB memory/device interface
  • VPAT

included accessories

  • power cable
  • User's manual in print

Manufacturer:

Amedia Corporation
Akiyama No.10 Bldg. 1F
1-15-6 Toyotamakami, Nerima-ku
Tokyo
176-0011
JAPAN
Web: https://www.amedia.co.jp/english

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