Using automatic speech recognition, the site can be navigated using verbal commands such as "news" or "weather". Textual digital content can also be coverted into a spoken output, in an 'almost natural' human voice.
The system makes it possible to read information on the site by mobile telephone.
Source: http://www.hltcentral.org/page-1058.shtml
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