Anyone still remember when I asked about the fathe of plextalk here? I did some digging and found out that in fact the only thing that still exists is *one* single device in the Japanese market. And this is not even a pocket device, the whole pocket lineup is gone. It#s a stationary device, and the future of this device is currently unclear as well. That is actually a pretty steep fall from once calling themselves the world leader in daisy players, while the focus of the main brand seams to have shifted to other products. Funfact, I used Claude to translate the Japanese pages for me as Google Translate gave horrible results, and at the end of it’s last message it said „What makes the whole thing even more bitter: they weren't just a device manufacturer, but deeply embedded in the infrastructure — with authoring software (PRS Pro, Producer), the entire Sapie ecosystem in Japan, and partnerships with libraries for the blind worldwide. And now it's all shrinking down to a single stationary device for the Japanese market, while the parent company would rather build factory robots.“ That… Is pretty damn accurate if you ask me.