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I am not blind myself (yet) … But how do blind people feel about morse code for reading text (or writing it)? Is it a workable solution, or is neural-network based text-to-speech and speech to text preferred? Drawbacks of morsecode include that it takes long to learn and to master.

But these kind of signals can be even understood by blind or deaf people.

Morse code wiki link

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd say it's more of a hobby as a braille and speech is much more ubiquitous.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I do not even know if it is possible to read long text using Morse code exclusively, does this not require a large working memory?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would think you would have to, and I know for a fact that I could not do it.