Linguistics PhD student, Joshua Meyer, working with organization for the blind to create screen reading software for Kyrgyz-speaking people

Joshua Meyer and Empower Blind People (a community-based organization in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), are collaborating to create speech synthesis software for the Kyrgyz language which will be used in an open-source screen-reading program (NVDA) for visually impaired people.

Joshua has conducted research previously in Bishkek, supported by a research fellowship from the American University of Central Asia's Central Asian Studies Institute.