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Summsen for deaf-and-blind people

Reading and writing text via different vibrations felt at computer stereo speakers

Turn the volume at the PC mixer and the speakers to full volume so that the vibrations are feelable optimally. When having other feeling problems, I recommend subwoofers or very large speakers, e.g. also of instrument amplifiers. The membrane of the speaker should be directly feelable with the finger/hand.

Features:

• Reading and writing of text via vibrations
• The vibrations are generated by different MIDI instrument sounds
• Reading the text from the current text cursor position on
• Text input possible via the keyboard - every typed character can be also felt via vibrations
• Two sample profiles [a profile is an assignment of MIDI instruments to characters] are supplied (in one of them, only three MIDI instruments are used)
• Custom profiles can be created by defining MIDI instruments and length of the MIDI sounds for every character
  • By using several MIDI instruments, characters can be read in shorter time than morse code
• Training mode to learn the vibrations
• New in version 1.1:
  • Automatic reading of text which was copied into the clipboard - this is an open interface for script programmers (here you can find additional useful programs which use or support this feature)
  • Product recognition via barcodes with the program TEXTINFO - more information in the help file of the Summsen program

This is especially suitable for deaf-and-blind people who are not able to use Braille, also due to financial reasons.

The idea for this program is a further development of the program Barcode Keyboards for deaf-and-blind people by my brother David under
    http://www.tichnut.de/deafblind-keyboards/index-en.html
I am very thankful to David.

The program can be downloaded free of charge at here.
Quick use: After the first start, a text can be entered in the Summsen Editor, then place the text cursor at the beginning of the text and press the F2 key or click on "Read!".

Here is another free of charge program (a game) for deaf-and-blind people

System requirements: Windows 11, stereo speakers whose membrane can be felt

License agreement:

This program is protected by copyright laws and freeware.

The author is not liable for consequential, incidental or indirect damages of any kind arising out of the use of the program.

Overview of my free of charge software for deaf and blind people