Digital voice helps blind people surf the web in Welsh

Automated speech software - which enables information on computer screens to be read aloud in Welsh - is being launched at the Eisteddfod, by Education Minister Leighton Andrews and Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones.

The Welsh Synthetic Voice has been produced by RNIB Cymru to help blind and partially sighted people access information on-line, such as train timetables.

The software will be free for individuals to download and is supported by £80,000 of Welsh Assembly Government funding.