There is no shortage of audiovisual software and Braille scanners for the visually impaired. In many ways, such technology allows people to overcome their visual disabilities and consume media and books like anyone else. But many of these systems aren’t very mobile, and in the end, they require a series of multiple steps to translate text into audio.

There is no shortage of audiovisual software and Braille scanners for the visually impaired. In many ways, such technology allows people to overcome their visual disabilities and consume media and books like anyone else. But many of these systems aren’t very mobile, and in the end, they require a series of multiple steps to translate text into audio.

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Helping to close that gap is the FingerReader, developed by MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group. The prototype is a finger-mounted computer that reads text aloud as users run their finger across each word. Here’s how researchers describe it:

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However, as you can see in the video, the device is a bit glitchy and sluggish, but this is a prototype after all. And if you were expecting a warm, husky voice like Scarlett Johansson’s in the operating system in the movie Her, keep dreaming. FingerReader’s voice is very robotic, but then again, that’s pretty standard for audiovisual software for the visually impaired.

via Motherboard