What her parents did for her, she hopes to do for many other blind people
From: MIT Technology Review - 09/2015 - page 60
By: Ayla Jean Yackley

Duygu Kayaman developed a mobile-phone application, Hayal Ortagim (My Dream
Partner), to make daily activities easier for the visually impaired. It
offers news and editorial columns through text-to-speech technology. Books,
courses from the Khan Academy, and chess and guitar lessons are at hand.
Location services help users find pharmacies and hospitals, and navigation
systems for indoor spaces guide them through shopping centers; airports and
subways are to be added soon. Also in the works is a function for
restaurants: it will alert staff through a Bluetooth beacon that a blind
customer has arrived, and then transcribe the menu for the patron.

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http://www.technologyreview.com/lists/innovators-under-35/2015/humanitarian/duygu-kayaman