The business of “reading aloud” is booming. In 2024 alone, the global Text-to-Speech (TTS) market was valued at approximately $4 billion, and it is projected to nearly double to $7.6 billion by 2029.

Kenyan entrepreneur Elly Savatia has won the prestigious Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation and £50,000 for creating Terp 360, a revolutionary web-based application that translates speech and ...

For the 1.3 billion people worldwide living with a disability, travel can often be a minefield of uncertainty and barriers. From inaccessible websites to poorly designed rooms and untrained staff, the ...

The WHO estimates that there are over 626 million people around the world with hearing impairment with almost two thirds of them coming from low to middle income countries. With devices like hearing ...

A new British crime drama, “Code of Silence,” has been making waves for its compelling plot and its significant contribution to on-screen inclusion. The series, which holds a perfect 100% rating on ...

Many of us, without a doubt, use Microsoft Office products on a daily basis. Writing documents, creating spreadsheets, sending and receiving emails, and creating and presenting presentations is a part ...

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, while not explicitly designed as assistive technology, are gaining recognition for their potential to significantly improve accessibility and independence for many people ...

In the last few years, we have read quite a bit about how technology has allowed our brain to control devices or objects around us without the use of limbs. (If you haven’t, you can read about some ...

Eye tracking is about where we look, what we look at, how much time we spend looking at it, how our pupils react to different kinds of visual stimulation and when we blink. Put most simply, eye ...

Are you familiar with Guides on Apple Maps? A feature introduced with iOS 14, Guides allow you to make a collection of places based on interests or needs. For example, you can create a Guide of all ...

For individuals with limb loss, the connection between their body and their prosthetic, known as the socket, is crucial for comfort and mobility. Traditionally, creating this socket is a hands-on, ...

A new startup, WeWalk, which recently graduated from the Microsoft for Startups program, is making waves in the assistive technology world. WeWalk has invented a product by the same name that attaches ...