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Feeling sounds, hearing sights

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A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are blind or deaf.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 1
      January 2018
      110 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3176926
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