Kurzweil Reading Machine
From: IEEE - The Institute - 12/2013 - page 4

January 13, 1976 - Raymond Kurzweil announces the Kurzweil Reading Machine,
the first print-to-speech reading device for the blind. 

Source:
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/ns/quarterly_issues/tidec13.pdf

Links:
Kurzweil Computer Products
http://www.kurzweiltech.com/kcp.html

35-year anniversary of the Kurzweil Reading Machine for the blind (from 2011)
http://www.kurzweilai.net/35-year-anniversary-of-the-kurzweil-reading-machine-for-the-blind