I.Before listening to the interview go through the list of words below and give their Russian equivalents
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Listening
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Assignment III.Translate the following phrases from English into Russian
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1/The latest assistive technology is designed to help them
2/This (the Act) makes it illegal for employers to discriminate against people with disabilities.
3/The first task is to determine the specific needs of the disabled worker.
4/To work effectively, most blind users need to have their computers adapted with technologies such as Braille.
5/...allowing the blind user to easily identify each key
6/...a screen magnification program may be appropriate
7/A speech-synthesis system is used to read aloud the work on the computer
8/OCR uses … specialized software to read printed material and send the text to the computer
9/Motor-impaired workers unable to type on a standard keyboard
1/ they are now being developed
2/the user is alerted by a menu bar blinking
3/devices which print out what is spoken in meetings...
4/on-screen keyboards may be activated with a trackball
5/Switches are operated by muscle movements
1/enlarge text appearing on the screen
2/all applications, including the Internet
1.to work on a project
2.to study each person's needs and abilities
3.to design and produce equipment
4.processors with 800 MHz of power
5.to run special applications
6.special applications – the optical character recognition, speech synthesis programs
7.the amount of RAM is important
8.many adaptation programs require at least 256 MB
9.expansion slots
10.to install an optical scanner, a speech synthesizer, video and drive controllers
11.to have a spare slot
12.useful ways of enabling them (blind users) to interact with the computer
13.optical scanners
14.voice recognition devices
15.Braille devices
16.to communicate with the user by reading the output from the screen
17.to instruct the computer verbally
18.Compaq has DECtalk express – a speech synthesizer
19.to hear what is displayed on the screen
20.IBM has a speech recognition system called ViaVoice
21.Apple has developed a screen magnification program – CloseView
22.text-to-speech synthesis
23.talking alerts
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