Portable talking computer for the Blind

System Information

• Full PC104 QWERTY keyboard
• Mains and battery power
• Operated through a customised menu system
• Play, record and edit audio files in most popular audio formats
• Network access through Ethernet or WiFi networks

Speech, Audio and Text Input and Output

• Speech synthesis in all eleven official South African languages
• Read Daisy books (Daisy 2.02 format)
• Look up words in the offline dictionary
• Play audio files in most popular audio formats
• Audio recording and speech-friendly editing (insertion and deletion of audio in .wav format)
• Audio file conversion between various most prevalent audio formats
• Lookup words in the offline dictionary
• Use the scientific calculator, unit conversion and word-processing utilities
• Braille support for external braille displays through brltty

Functions and Programs

• Email (smtp/pop3)
• Easy web browsing (i.e. Google and Wikipedia)
• Twitter access
• Play and record Internet audio streams
• Dictionary lookups in an offline dictionary
• Scientific calculator
• Change language of speech on-the-fly, without leaving the currently running program
• Unit conversion utility
• Creation of customisable databases

File Management, Conversion and Processing

• File management (copy, move, rename and delete)
• View various document formats (for example text, .doc, .odf, .pdf and others)
• Word processing
• Optical character recognition from image file or scanner
• Conversion of PDF to HTML or text
• Print a number of file formats
• Extraction of file archives (for example .zip, .bz2, .rar and .7z)
• Share files with other devices (for example PCs, pads and players) through a web interface
• Share files with Windows-based computers using the standard file sharing method
• Access to external USB devices such as storage, CD drives, modems, scanners, printers, etc.
• Listen to DVDs
• Rip audio CDs
• Copying of data or audio from and to CDs and DVDs
• Capably record audio in varying environments and play it back later