Dr. Dónal Fitzpatrick:

It could be a game-changer. There are two comments I will make and Voice of Vision Impairment referred to them. AI has the capacity to take inaccessible educational materials and render them accessibly. A crucial part of this are things like mathematics, diagrams, charts, visualisations and other diagrammatic material that can either be described or access provided to it. This use of AI could enable vision impaired people to access subject material that is not currently available. Another really interesting approach here could be if we take it in the context of the Irish language. To the best of my knowledge, and I am open to correction on this, there is one speech synthesiser, which is responsible for converting text into artificial speech, available in the Irish language. AI and AI-generated speech has the capacity to produce really accurate, really high-quality Irish language speech, which could improve the access to Irish language education for lots of students at all levels across the country. Taking a universal design approach, it could be usable by everybody and not just restricted to people with disabilities.