Ray Kurzweil
Rick Friedman
Inventor
Ray Kurzweil is a renowned author, inventor, entrepreneur, and visionary. His technological innovations include; the first optical character recognition (OCR) software for transforming the written word into data, the first print-to-speech software for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, and many electronic instruments.
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