We believe in a world where visually impaired people have the same chances as the sighted ones.
We believe that blind people must have the same access to information, education, culture, and employment as those who see.
We know that blind children have the same needs, but don’t have the same means as the children without impairments.
In a light-less world of shapes and sounds, we need to offer blind children digital tools, to enrich the shapes with audio information of their meaning, for a better understanding of what are they learning about at school, for a better understanding of the world.
Visually impaired children need to go forward with digital technologies to keep up with the sighted children.
S-PEAK M6 Touch device
Given this goal, we designed an innovative product named, S-PEAK M6 Touch device. This is an interactive digital electronic device, equipped with a 12.1” touch panel input and an audio output, meant to add audio content to items of maps, drawings and other embossed sheets, placed on the touch panel surface. At a simple press on an item in the embossed sheet, a corresponding audio recording is played, providing audio information about that item. It is intuitive and very easy to use.
S-PEAK M6 Touch device is a new digital solution, based on two patents, one of them awarded with gold and bronze within the invention exhibitions of Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Geneva, Swiss in year 2014.
M6 Touch device and its accessories were designed having a constant feedback from the involved teachers and visually impaired students. It’s easy to use by visually impaired students with embossed sheets (maps, drawings, etc.) at Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Geometry, Music, foreign languages, Special Therapies, crosswords, games, etc.
You can also use S-PEAK M6 Touch device with a multipurpose Game Grid device accessory (placed over the touch panel surface) and a set of Braille movable letters for crossword, respectively playing pieces for some (roll-and-move) board games, especially adapted for this device.
On the Game Grid device, a printed & embossed A4-size sheet is placed, which has some necessary holes for the game, in which Braille letters or playing pieces are inserted.
When you press on an embossed label on the sheet or on a playing piece, placed in a hole, a corresponding audio record is played. At crosswords, the audio recording is the clue and at board games, it tells what’s happening in that position of the board (or only tells you the location of the pawn).
AB Editor
«AB Editor» is a graphical & audio software editor, that provides a simple way to create new teaching materials (maps, drawings, etc.), crosswords and board games for S-PEAK M6 Touch device. You can edit the text and graphic information on the page, define hot areas around the items you want to add audio information. You can add audio records and link them to the hot items on the page. Crossword pages can also be easily created. Finally, all the data and audio files are copied to the micro SD memory of the S-PEAK M6 Touch device.