optophone

(ˈɒptəˌfəʊn)

(Electrical Engineering) a device for blind people that converts printed words into sounds

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optophone

a device combining a selenium cell and telephone apparatus that converts light energy into sound energy, used to enable blind people to sense light through the hearing and thus read printed matter.

See also: Blindness

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References in periodicals archive

The photoconductivity of selenium found its use in a photometer by Siemens, 1875, a photophone by Graham Bell, 1880, an optophone by Fourniere d'Albe, 1912 and then talking films in 1921 [61].

Effects of selenium red nanoparticles on leishmania infantum, cellular apoptosis and INF-[gamma] and IL-4 cytokine responses against visceral leishmaniasis

Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971) was perhaps the most talented of the German-speaking Dadaists, being photomontagist, painter, photographer, dancer, and inventor of the 'optophone' (a device intended to convert light into sound; patented in 1935) as well as a prolific writer and theorist.

Raoul Hausmann

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