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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It was fun to hear students and fresh Ph.Ds I gave the opening keynote, on my main new theme, Raising the Floor. 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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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. The Team For a Better World from Portugal developed a prototype low-cost portable device that determines blood types in about 5 minutes. Very sophisticated for a student team.

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