The development of speech technologies is especially significant for the disabled:
- computers can read books, news from the Internet, e-mail and SMS messages to the visually impaired,
- computers can convert what a speech impaired person writes into speech,
- the physically disabled can communicate with the devices in their environment,
- automatically recognized speech is easily translated into text which can then be read by people with hearing disabilities.
A client-server system which provides the visually impaired with the access to a large database of books and other texts through the local network or the Internet.
Adding speech features to web sites
In the world of global networking and abundance of information it is no longer sufficient to be one of the many and have all that everyone else has.