RoboBraille - A European Braille and Speech Translation Service

With the financial support of the European Commission within the framework of eTEN programme, the Danish RoboBraille service is currently being tested in Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Cyprus and the United Kingdom.

RoboBraille is an e-mail based service that translates written documents to and from Braille or synthetic speech. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users. The primary group targeted for this service is the visually impaired and other print-impaired readers.

The initial response from end-users as well as from potential commercial users has been very positive, and the RoboBraille service has received considerable publicity, mainly through national TV and radio broadcastings in the United Kingdom as well as in Denmark. For instance, RoboBraille project was presented on the BBC News web site and has also been invited to participate in the annual Festival of Research in Denmark on 27-28 April.

Despite of the service being only in a trial phase, it has already managed to raise great interest. The consortium leader, Lars Ballieu Christensen hopes that the service will be fully implemented next year. It is already planning to widen the number of countries, languages involved and to target a larger group of users.

Please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your contact information if you would like to participate in the pilot tests of the RoboBraille service.

For further information, please visit:
http://www1.respekt.nu/websites/acj/robobraille.nsf

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About RoboBraille Project
The RoboBraille project offers a tool that automates the translation of text into Braille and speech. Users submit documents as attachments to e-mails. In return, they receive contracted Braille documents or MP3 files. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users.

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