Agência Brasil
Brasília – The Federal Data Processing Service (Serpro) is developing a software program, called Open Screen, that will convert written into spoken text. The program, which is especially designed for people with visual deficiencies to navegate on the internet, will be distributed without charge.
Marcos Kinsky, a Serpro analyst, said today that the software may be available to society by the end of 2005.
Brazil has around 6 million people who are visually deficient, and this type of program will guarantee their social and digital inclusion, Kinsky added.