People incapable of reading and writing will have access to text messages from now on. A system using vocal synthesis, icons and management allows people to send and read text messages by those normally unable to read and write. It is already being used in Switzerland. More than 800 million people in the world are illiterate, and with the advent of mass text messaging, these people are incapable of using one of the most common forms of communication available today. Students at the Laboratory of Design and Communication at EPFL have developed an application for Smartphone, EasySMS, that allows people unable to read and write to use text messages. "Meeting" "at" "1" "pm": every word of the received text is turned into an icon. The isolated words become a tactile button, so that when the user touches the button, the system pronounces the word.
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