Features & Benefits

The Perkins SMART Brailler is built upon the newly released Next Generation Perkins Brailler – VERSION 2 platform, an upgraded version of the Next Generation Perkins Brailler which includes significant improvements to enhance its durability and performance (view a summary of improvements here). The SMART is added in a new high-technology format.

 Watch our SMART Brailler Introduction video.

SMART Brailler features include:

 A video screen that displays SimBraille and large print, combined with audio feedback, for an instantaneous, multi-sensory learning experience

 The ability to edit, save and transfer electronic documents via USB

 Built-in software with lessons for braille beginners (American Printing House version only; available separately for a fee)

 Headphone jack and volume control

 Acapela Text to Speech from Acapela Group

 US English Braille, including contractions

 Mechanical brailler capability

 Rechargeable and removable battery

Coming Soon:

 Built-in software with lessons for braille beginners (American Printing House version only; available separately for a fee)

 Multiple language platforms including English, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Portuguese

 Download the SMART Brailler sell sheet.

Why a SMART Brailler

The SMART Brailler is the long-awaited evolution of the Perkins Brailler® from a low-technology, beloved classic to a high-technology learning and teaching tool. Developed by Perkins Products and PDT (Product Development Technologies) with support from the American Printing House for the Blind, the SMART Brailler opens the door to a new, more intuitive way for individuals, both sighted and blind, to communicate, teach and learn braille together. Now teachers in a mainstream classroom can see what their students are brailling. Sighted parents can help their visually impaired children with homework. And students can take the lead in their own braille education. Sighted or blind, we can all share the learning experience!

  Watch our video on braille literacy.

  Read user testimonials about the SMART Brailler

How does the SMART Brailler do this?

• Its video screen and audio feedback shows and speaks letters and words in real-time as they are being brailled in SimBraille or large print, for an instantaneous, multi-sensory learning experience.
• The USB port enables a student who is blind to create a hard copy document in braille and save it as a text file, which allows a teacher with sight to upload the document onto a computer and read it in print.
• The "Building on Patterns Series," developed by the American Printing House for the Blind, can be downloaded to the SMART Brailler, offering easy lessons for anyone – sighted or blind – who wants to learn braille, inviting everyone to share the learning experience. (Included on APH version only, or will be available for download soon.)

  Watch our SMART Brailler webinar.

No other education tool makes learning braille this intuitive and accessible. And there is no other product on the market that bridges the gap between low-technology devices like the Perkins Brailler and high-technology notetakers.

HEAR THE WORDS. SEE THE LETTERS. CONNECT THE DOTS.