Programme title: Financial support from the budget of the City of Novi Sad in 2004 for the implementation of individual projects that contribute to achieving protection, rehabilitation and socialisation of people in need
Financier: City of Novi Sad
Project duration: March 2011 – June 2011
Project partners:
- Multis – Association of patients with multiple sclerosis
- Society for Cerebral and Child Palsy
- Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad
- AlfaNum, Novi Sad
Summary: The project was aimed at improving the quality of life of people with multiple sclerosis and cerebral paralysis using speech technologies. Speech technologies enable people with physical disabilities to independently perform certain activities, for which they otherwise need a help of assistant, such as reading written content, certain simple operations such as opening windows, turning on/off lights and so on. Any progress in making the physically disabled more independent is a big step for our society, and even bigger and more important for themselves and for those who care for them. During the project new computers were purchased and anReader software was installed on them, which facilitated the rehabilitation. Realisation of this project in Novi Sad was a significant step for our society and the societies across the former Yugoslavia, since it was the first project of this kind in the region.
