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## The Espaitec company SemanticBots develops Sayobo, the first chatbot for companies and institutions designed to improve accessibility for the visually impaired The use of artificial intelligence systems such as Sayobo can improve digital accessibility and online self-management for more than 253 million visually impaired people worldwide.

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SemanticBots, a company installed in Espaitec specialised in conversational platforms (chatbots), is developing under the new brand Sayobo a chatbot designed to improve digital accessibility and online self-management for people with visual disabilities.

Sayobo can be easily integrated into any web page, app or other digital channels of companies and organisations to communicate with their customers or users, making contents more accessible to visually impaired people. The chatbot is capable of answering in different languages, both by voice and chat, and adapts to the needs of each person when providing information or managing tasks from digital channels.

The system is being developed entirely by a university research team. Thus, it allows the layers of customisation, implementation of new features and integrations to be simpler than in other systems on the market, an issue highly valued by companies and institutions when implementing this type of tools in their digital transformation processes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 253 million visually impaired people in the world. Of these, 36 million are blind and 217 million are moderately or severely disabled. In Spain, more than one and a half million people are visually impaired and in Europe there are another 9 million cases. In addition to this, experts predict that the number of visually impaired people could triple before 2050, so solutions such as Sayobo can greatly facilitate the lives of these people when it comes to consulting information, making purchases or reservations, or making any kind of management from different mobile devices through the Internet.

More information: <https://www.sayobo.io/>

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