Electronics in medicine: How computers talk to the blind: Sightless computer programmers provide input by keyboard and are responded to by a synthetic speech unit
David C. Songco, Scott I. Allen, Perry S. Plexico, Ronald A. Morford · IEEE Spectrum · 1980
Describes how microcomputers which make synthetic speech feasible promise to open up job opportunities for the blind in fields hitherto closed to them. A prototype microcomputer-controlled voice generator which allows a computer to communicate by synthesised voice with the programmer is described. The programmer interacts with the computer by keyboard in the conventional manner.