This little project was devised to speed the task of typing text into a computer, though it will probably find plenty of other uses. It allows you to control an ordinary cheap microcassette recorder so as to play recorded speech a few words at a time, waiting for a prompt before continuing. This allows people who cannot type without looking at the screen or keyboard to type rapidly and continuously since it removes the need to refer frequently to the text being typed, which in the case of handwriting can be extremely tedious.

The whole process is simple, rapid and inexpensive to implement since it will work with the cheapest of microcassette recorders. It can also be used with any old computer that will run a wordprocessor, or even with a typewriter.