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The blind sensory aid paper was written, given at the conference, and may be found in
the proceedings of Jim Warren's "1977 West Coast Computer Faire", under
the title of "The Design of a Voice Output Adapter for Computer". Synopsis reads "
The design of a Voice Output Adapter for visually handicapped computer programmers
is discussed. This device, based on a DEC LSI-11 microcomputer and a VOTRAX VS-6 synthesizer
will generate speech from ordinary typed text. Phonetic translation is accomplished by
a set of rules, instead of a dictionary. Although this device uses a VOTRAX synthesizer,
and experimentation has been limited to English, the device will act independently
of language or synthesizer type. All software will reside in the main memory;
no peripheral memory will be used. This results in a compact device."
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