Cheonan City announced on the 31st that it will implement the 'Voice-Eye' service starting in April, a solution that converts public documents to voice and reads them aloud.

'Voice-Eye' is a technology that, when a dedicated barcode inserted into a public document is scanned with a smartphone, converts the document's content into voice and reads it.

When the Voice-Eye application installed on a smartphone is pointed at this code, the text information is converted into voice. It converts the content of paper documents into voice and also offers a font size adjustment function, allowing visually impaired individuals, the elderly, and multicultural families who have difficulty reading text to conveniently check public documents.

In addition to Korean, it also supports translation and voice output in over 60 languages, including English and Chinese, which is expected to significantly improve access to administrative information for multicultural families and foreign residents.

The Voice-Eye service is free for anyone to use by downloading the 'Voice-Eye' app from smartphone app stores.

The city plans to actively guide service usage through senior welfare centers, welfare centers for the disabled, and multicultural support centers in the future, and will also strengthen public relations efforts targeting citizens.

A city official stated, "We expect that the introduction of this service will provide practical help to citizens who have difficulty accessing information, such as the visually impaired, those with low vision, and multicultural families," and added, "It will be an opportunity to take another step closer to realizing administrative services where everyone is not excluded."

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