RoboBraille helps blind to explore the virtual world

There are already a fair number of text-to-speech applications that work with varying degrees of success, there are none that have the specific purpose of helping the blind. RoboBraille is effectively a free e-mail service that converts sections of text into numerous languages so they become useful to the blind. One of the most important things that the EU funded project had to address was ease of use, and not only does a simple email provide text-to-speech to numerous languages such as Lithuanian and Greek, but it can also send back documents that can be converted into braille using the appropriate hardware.This fully opens up the internet to the blind as the system recognizes not just plain text, but word documents, HTML and XML which it convert in minutes.Although it is not currently expanded, as they are currently adding Danish to their language repertoire, it is a quick easy to use, effective and free system, that significantly helps the visually challenged.