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Austria conference on access technology

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It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds And, there were many projects that definitely fell under the RTF umbrella. I met a professor from Portugal who had a student who developed EasyVoice , software that makes it possible for someone who cannot speak to use Voice over IP via Skype to talk to people using a voice synthesizer.

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Bookshare International Now Serves Thirty Countries

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Our Bookshare team has also been working on a special project with Qatar’s Mada Assistive Technology Center to add Arabic-language books to the collection. Bookshare International members now have access to more than 50,000 titles, including books in Spanish, German, French, Hindi, and Tamil, and a collection of textbooks in Afrikaans.

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Benetech: President's Update

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The amazing thing about serving 100,000 students right now is that our commitment to the U.S. Department of Education was to serve 100,000 students by the end of our five-year contract in late 2012. Human Rights Program – Changing the Field of Human Rights Making the truth matter is the core theme of our human rights work.