Any thoughts on Morse Code? (sopuli.xyz)

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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.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

As a smartwatch wearer I kinda wish there was a way I could passively receive information that wasn't audio or visually oriented. I've toyed around with the idea of trying to learn Morse code for this purpose and having some kind of haptic wearable transmit notifications to me.

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