Affordable speech synthesizers From: Technology Review - Sep/Oct 2011 - page 57 By: Tom Simonite Ajit Narayanan, founder of Invention Labs and one of the 2011 TR35, has designed a low-cost tablet-based speed synthesizer system called Avaz. Some four million people in India suffer from cerebral palsy and other disabilities that make it difficult or impossible for them to speak. Giving them a voice is the job of Ajit Narayanan's low-cost tablet-based system, Avaz. Even someone with only limited movement control can use Avaz to construct phrases that are spoken out loud by an artificial voice. Read the entire article and view a video at: http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=1097&mod=tr35_riverofnames Link: Avaz Giving Voice to Children http://www.thebetterindia.com/1287/avaz-voice-support-speech-impaired/ Affordable speech synthesizers http://www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm?pageid=160377&ksectionid=160164&atlitid=202704