title: An affordable digital-display-to-natural-voice converter for visually impaired radio amateurs.
abstract: An electronic circuit to convert the information contained in a digital display to natural voice is presented. Extraction of the information is done on the display itself using buffered inputs to the converter. It is changed to voice by a microcontroller and a voice chip.
authors.affiliation: Sensors Sources and Signal Processing Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, Rand Afrikaans University, Auckland Park, South Africa.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Lacquet
authors.forename: F H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Baird
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004581:Electronics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans