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Balze ET

An advanced multi-player with OCR for books, music, documents, podcasts, recording, DAISY and more!
It’s the book player everyone is talking about.
Blaze ET sets a new standard for portable DAISY players. For the first time, blind and visually impaired consumers have access to pocket-sized book players integrated with OCR text-to-speech to capture and read aloud hard copy printed documents on-demand.

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The new book player everyone is talking about… An advanced multi-player with OCR for books, music, documents, podcasts, recording, DAISY and more!

Blaze ET sets a new standard for portable DAISY players. For the first time, blind and visually impaired consumers have access to pocket-sized book players integrated with OCR text-to-speech to capture and read aloud hardcopy printed documents on-demand.

Access Books, Music, Printed Text and More

Blaze ET features a numeric keypad as well as several built-in apps including Calculator, Memo and Dictionary. Both Blaze ET and Blaze EZ play audio books and music files from their internal memory or your SD card and connect through built-in Wi-Fi to access online media, podcasts and internet radio. They support more than 20 file formats including formats from BookShare, NLS and Learning Ally, and also play your favorite music or podcasts. Create high-quality recordings using the internal microphone, external stereo microphone or stereo line-in, and enjoy live radio using the built-in FM Radio.

Stand-alone, single-button OCR capture and read

Use Blaze ET to OCR capture a menu, magazine article, library book, and more – all at the touch of a single button. The built-in auto-focus camera ensures a high-quality image for accurate OCR and text-to-speech.

Advanced, and yet easy-to-use controls and file system

Easy to find buttons for music, radio, books, OCR and recording give single touch access to each of these popular features. A familiar numeric keypad allows for more advance marking and navigation of files, and easy access controls on the side of the unit allow users to adjust pitch, rate and volume on the fly.

Play DAISY, music and audio book files

Blaze ET can read and play a variety of file including DAISY, TXT, BRL, MP3, MP4, WAV, WMA, WMV, OGG, ASF, AAC, AVI, FLAC, 3GP, MPG, M4A, TXT, RTF, HTML, HTM, XML, DOC, DOCX, PDF, EPUB, FB2, PDF, and more…

Built-in Wi-Fi

Use the built-in WiFi in Blaze ET to access online DAISY, e-books, podcasts, internet radio and more.

High-quality Recording

Record high-quality audio from internal microphone, external micrphone (not included) or stereo line-in.