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Unfortunately FS have created an expensive ($1k+) piece of software that is difficult to learn. I commend the OP for having the vision to innovate in this space.


I am not real familiar with "Jaws" which is what I think you are referring too. I had worked for the company that had been called Blazie Research. Blazie made "laptops for the blind", their products used a Z80 processor and a hardware based text to speech. The premium model had a braille output that had either 20 or 40 braille cells that were driven with piezo transducers. When I started we were tasked with building the next generation model based on the StrongArm chip. It was a very cool project that was lost in a venture capital based merger.




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