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RoboBraille An Interesting Pedagogical Tool

Posted on 30th November 201127th August 2018 By Leo Casey No Comments on RoboBraille An Interesting Pedagogical Tool

 

Some of my colleagues and I are participating in a European project as part of a transnational consortium looking at the uses of RoboBraille -an interesting tool/service that has emerged as an assistive technology for the blind.

 www.robobraille.org

As the name suggests RoboBraille began as a Braille conversion tool to enable simple text to be rendered in various forms of Braille.

The technology has now been developed to provides conversion and translation between a wide range of formats:

From .doc, .docx .htm, .html .xml .txt. .asc .rtf .pdf (all types) .epub, .mobi .tif, gif, .bmp .jpg, .j2k, .jp2, .jpx .pcx, .dcx .djv

To: Braille, MP3, ebook (epub or mobi), Daisy, Accessible Formats

Put simply, if you have a text file (say from a word processor like MS word) and you want to be able to listen to a very good synthesised voice reading this document then you simply submit your file on the web site above or by e-mail. You get back an MP3 or a Daisy (a format that allows text and speech to be played together). This is very useful for people who find reading difficult – the partially sighted, people with literacy difficulties and people with dyslexia.

Go ahead and try the service it’s free to non-commercial users.

If you don’t mind please let me know how you get on as we are making a catalogue of good practice as part of the project outputs.

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