Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Ajit Narayanan
Narayanan describes his work at EmTech 2011: Affordable speech synthesizers
Invention Labs
Some four million people in India suffer from cerebral palsy and other disabilities that make it difficult or impossible for them to speak. Giving them a voice is the job of Ajit Narayanan's low-cost tablet-based system, Avaz. Even someone with only limited movement control can use Avaz to construct phrases that are spoken out loud by an artificial voice.
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