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AI and computer-vision techniques to read sign language and improve mobility aids such as wheelchairs and walkers. With this in mind, AI is being increasingly implemented in various types of tools designed to help the disabled. Those tools include screen readers and computer-navigation aids for the visually impaired, voice-to-text converters for the deaf, neural interfaces that interpret brainwaves to help users operate their wheelchairs and walkers, and assistive gaming technology. Researchers are now also dramatically improving user interfaces for wheelchairs by adding environmental sensors, sign-language training software, and other applications. The market for devices to help the disabled appears to have a bright future, which should drive further development. BCC Research predicts that the market for assistive technologies in the US alone will grow from $38.2 billion in 2008 to $49.3 billion in 2013.