SINGAPORE — After nearly two years of work, the country’s national bank has managed a limited roll out of talking automated teller machines (ATMs) for the blind.
Last week, DBS announced it was voice enabling 86 of its 1,000-plus ATMs across the island.
This isn’t the first time a bank has managed to push out talking ATMs here, but the last attempt was done on a far smaller scale. British bank Standard Chartered was the first to roll out blind-friendly ATMs in 2012, but it was a far more limited roll out with only a handful of machines — and those have since been out of commission, according to Dolores Scully-Bailey, a spokesperson with the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH). Read more…
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