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{Transcriber's note via /u/Itsthejoker: The video shows a man wearing a black dress shirt in a living room, sitting on a couch. He faces the camera for the entire video and the scene does not change.}

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Hi. My name's Austin Hicks, and I'm a blind programmer. Online, I go by Camlorn. In the blindness community, I'm most known for libaudioverse, a large library for 3d audio and synthesis, Unspoken, an NVDA addon that replaces control names with 3d sound, and dictationbridge.

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I intend to produce data sonification tools that can be used by blind people in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and other similar fields. Audio graphing has already proven itself at the high school level, and I am more than qualified to take it further.

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Want to explore machine learning, examine the stock market, learn digital signal processing? All of these are nearly impossible today. The best current solution is a Braille embosser, a costly, slow, and two dimensional option. I can't predict what other users will need, so I intend to seek suggestions from as many people as possible.

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I've linked demo audio in the description of this video. I wanted to provide a functional demo you could run, but didn't find out about the Holman Prize in time. The software I will produce will be free and open source. The Holman prize is 25 thousand dollars. That's a lot of programming hours! The tools I will produce are of critical importance to any blind students or professionals in a scientific field.

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We've had quite a few of these over the past week or so. This person is the only applicant I've ever heard of, and would feel comfortable saying that he can do what he says. That isn't to say all the other applicants don't have good ideas, or shouldn't be given a chance. I just can't speak to them from my own experience.