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Funding and governance of library and information services for visually impaired people: international case studies

Part2:Country studies

Sweden

Special projects

In order to meet the demand for an increasing number of print disabled university students TPB have started to make DAISY books narrated with speech synthesizer. 25 percent of these books are in English. TPB also had to develop a new Swedish speech synthesizer fro this purpose as the existing do not have the vocabulary necessary for academic books.