Spotlight with Charlene Xia of Team Tactile: Creators of Tactile: A Real-Time Text to Braille Device

Summary: <a href="https://coolblindtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Tactile-Image1-1.png"></a><br> <br> In this Spotlight Interview, James Oates sits down with Charlene Xia of <a href="https://www.teamtactile.com/team/" target="_blank">Team Tactile, </a>the creators of Tactile, which is a handheld real-time text to braille device, about the size of a candy bar.<br> <br> <a href="https://coolblindtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Team-Tactile-Members.png"></a><br> <br> Six young women who are all engineering students at MIT have designed a device called <a href="https://www.teamtactile.com/" target="_blank">Tactile. </a>This device has a camera on the back and 36cells of braille on the front. You run it over text, and the camera captures the text, OCR software recognizes and converts the text, and it is displayed on the front in braille.<br> Listen to the podcast to get all the details.<br>