Soundsight Training is a highly innovative start-ups, which has developed a very exciting project with students of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the CERN in Geneva.
The small start-up has in fact developed a software that would ‘give sight to the blind’ with sound, using a technique that can also be adopted by the able-bodied to increase self-perception of the environment. This is the echolocation.
The project Sounsight Training promises to come to the aid of all the blind subjects to the extension of hearing abilities made through a technological support to help blind and visually impaired to distinguish contours , sizes and shapes of the surrounding reality.
Of course, as with all projects, funds are used and in fact Soundsight Training has recently landed on the platform Kickstarter crowfunding, within which it is possible to make donations of any entity: the target figure is 250,000 euro.
“If all goes according to plan – explains Irene Lanza , 25, a student of engineering management from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and councilor in Rio Saliceto with delegation environment and youth policies – from 2017 the software will be free and open source. Today in the world there is’ a wide availability of technology, which is used primarily for entertainment. Our goal is, faithful to the Treaty of Marrakech, promote circulation and dissemination of accessible books. Currently the blind have access to a percentage of books estimated at between 1 and 5% of those on the market. “
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