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Oxon TI users group ensures that the blind or partially sighted will benefit from Texas Instruments

The TI 99/4A User Group newly started up in Oxfordshire should have special appeal for the blind or partially sighted.

Using a 99/4A speech synthesiser and Terminal Emulator 11 module, blind users can communicate with databases. The system will give verbal prompts during program execution and will also speak a program listing aloud.

"The Terminal Emulator 11 module has a text-to-speech facility," said organiser Peter Brooks, who will also be taking an interest in TI's production of a speech recognition unit to be made by the Milton Bradley company.

Blind members can get the monthly newsletter on cassette as long as they supply Peter with a blank cassette each time they want one, but as yet no actual meetings have been organised.

Wendie Pearson