{"id":1427,"date":"2016-01-18T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T09:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/18\/singapores-national-bank-finally-rolls-out-blind-friendly-atms\/"},"modified":"2016-01-18T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T09:23:02","slug":"singapores-national-bank-finally-rolls-out-blind-friendly-atms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/18\/singapores-national-bank-finally-rolls-out-blind-friendly-atms\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore's national bank finally rolls out blind-friendly ATMs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SINGAPORE \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

Last week, DBS announced it was voice enabling 86 of its 1,000-plus ATMs across the island.<\/p>\n

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See also: Why Singapore getting its own Michelin Guide is a big deal for the island state<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a> in 2012, but it was a far more limited roll out with only a handful of machines \u2014 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…<\/a><\/p>\n

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SINGAPORE \u2014 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 … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1106,1108,1105,1107,732],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-atm","tag-dbs","tag-singapore","tag-talking-atms","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}