Case Study Innovation is a Tool of Progress Almost 200 years ago a book – one of the most precious things in the world – was inaccessible for blind people. In 1824 Frenchman Louis Braille invented a relief alphabet to bridge the gap in communication between the sighted and the blind. In 1930s first audio books were recorded. With the invention of computers speech synthesizers help visually impaired people to create new audio books themselves. All these achievements undoubtedly improved the life of the blind and reduced the gap, but never closed it. A Korean company HonestVision made their contribution trying to close the gap: in 2011 the team launched SoriAn – an OEM product transforming printed documents into speech sound. Why not Teach a Machine to Read out Loud? Honest

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