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3 unusual facts about National Library for the Blind


Dolphin Computer Access

In 2005 Dolphin worked alongside BT and the National Library for the Blind to develop a prototype synthetic voice application enabling books, magazines and newspapers to be converted into audio format, thus enabling them to be read by visually impaired computer users.

National Library for the Blind

This was approximately ten years old when found and had been the regional headquarters of Armitage Shanks, who no longer required it.

1916, the year of the final withdrawal from Gallipoli and of the devastating Battle of the Somme, was key in determining the future of the Library.



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