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A new device, the Braille Slate Talker, is introduced. An ordinary hand held device (a PDA) is used with a fixed layout plastic guide placed over the touch screen to allow Braille input. Contracted Braille is converted to text by a table-driven state machine. Programs are written in Java language to provide full hardware and software platform independence. Future network applications will use Sun’s Jini technology.

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  1. KFKI RMKI Laboratory of Speech Technology for Rehabilitation, Budapest 114, POBox 49, 1525, Budapest

    A. Arato

  2. Dept. of Information Systems, University of Veszprem, Egyetem u 10, Veszprem, 8200, Hungary

    Z. Juhasz

  3. Dept. of Computation, UMIST, PO Box 88, Sackville St, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK

    P. Blenkhorn & G. Evans

  4. Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland

    G. Evreinov

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. INSERM U592 – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Association BrailleNet, 9, quai Saint Bernard, 75252, Paris cedex 05, France

    Dominique Burger

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Arato, A., Juhasz, Z., Blenkhorn, P., Evans, G., Evreinov, G. (2004). Java-Powered Braille Slate Talker. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Burger, D. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27817-7_74

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