See their link here to register for access.

The My Talking Books skill allows registered users to search for titles and store them on a bookshelf, navigate around inside a book  and stream its contents at different speeds and pitch.  The current collection made  available (English, Audiobooks)  has perhaps 100,000 audio books, and can be accessed where ever Alexa is found.  Whether it be smart speaker, or an app on an iPhone or elsewhere.

RealSAM Inc and its parent company RealThing AI have been working with the Library of Congress (the parent organization of NLS) since 2019, prototyping different voice operated solutions. This was first released to the public in September 2024.  We are very excited!

We will also look to adding the NLS library to RealSAM downstream, once NLS ok’s its new systems for access.

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The Library of Congress division – The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled provides audio books for over 400,000 Americans through its existing technology of cartridge based players and millions more via its smartphone app. This system, however, is slow and expensive to run, and the technology is reaching the end of its life.

RealSAM has a cloud based dialogue and reasoning engine that it pairs with an android phone to provide a completely voice operated solution for searching for and streaming books. From the consumer’s point of view, it’s as easy as just saying “Find me books about James Bond” to get a list of books you can then select using your voice, to stream to your phone.

The RealSAM solution is currently being sold in the UK as RealSAM : In Your Pocket where it delivers the Royal National Institute of Blind People Library, the largest audio book library of its kind in the UK. In Australia and the UK, the device also acts as a voice operated phone as well as a digital assistant helping to improve the quality of life of those suffering from low vision or blindness.

RealSAM is a subsidiary of Australian Artificial Intelligence developer Real Thing Entertainment. RealSAM provides a friendly voice operated assistant, media player & phone – designed for people with blindness or low vision. It operates in Australia, the UK and the USA.

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