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The High Cost of Digital “Help”

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...

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  • A New Roadmap for Hotels: The Ascott Limited has launched a free, open-access Disability Inclusion Playbook for the global accommodation sector, providing a practical framework for hotels of all sizes to become truly inclusive.
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    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 text into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars. Described as “Google Translate for sign language,” the app addresses a critical challenge ...

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    Scientists at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed an AI-powered “co-pilot” to dramatically improve assistive devices for people with paralysis. The research, conducted in the Neural Engineering and Computation Lab led by Professor Jonathan Kao with student developer Sangjoon Lee, tackles a major issue with non-invasive, we...

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    •  Learn about the long-standing partnership between Xbox and Special Olympics and their shared mission to make gaming accessible for everyone.
    • Get an inside look at the recent Xbox Game Camp, a unique event that gave athletes an immersive experience in the gaming industry.
    • Find out how and when to watch the u...

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