COMPUTER VOICE PROGRAM DEVELOPED FOR VISUALLY HANDICAPPED The Bilkent University Computer Engineering Department has announced the release of a new computer program called "OKU" designed expressly for the use of visually handicapped people who speak Turkish. The OKU program is expected to provide them with further opportunities to use computers for research and course work. OKU can read a given text out in clear Turkish. Visually handicapped people can listen to all written documents, such as books, papers, journals, that are stored in txt or rtf formats. OKU can also serve as a word processor; during the typing or editing of a document, OKU reads out each keystroke and each word right after it is typed in. Volume can be adjusted by means of the keyboard, so users do not need a mouse or any other visual-based tools. The program is free to download and install from the Internet www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~guvenir/Oku It has been developed by Assoc. Prof. H. Altay Güvenir, and his students Bertan Arı and Ümit Çatalyürek. For more information call Altay Guvenir at ext. 12 52 or 266 44 95. Or e-mail guvenir@bilkent.edu.tr