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Dr András Arató obtained his M.Sc.E.E. degree from Popov Electrical Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1974 and his Ph.D. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1993. His early research fields were high speed computer communications, local area networks, and microprogramming. In the last twelve years, he was involved in the research of speech technology for the rehabilitation of handicapped persons. He developed the talking BraiLab computer family most widely used by blind people in Hungary.
He teaches visually impaired students at Lóránd Eötvös University in Budapest. He is honorary member of the Hungarian Association for the Blind, and has received the Farkas Kempelen Prize, named after the first man in the world creating synthetic speech, from the John von Neumann Computer Society.