On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the Informatics for the Visually Impaired Foundation (www.infoalap.hu) established an award entitled “Key to the Digital World.” The purpose of the award is to recognize individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of digital accessibility in Hungary.
In 2025, the Foundation’s recognition was awarded to Dr. Gábor Olaszy, Eszter Terescsik, Dr. Veronika Rákli, Péter Korbuly, Dr. Géza Németh, and Tobias Winnes. The awardees include the lead researchers of the ProfiVox text-to-speech system developed at the BME TMIT SmartLabs Laboratory, the actors and radio announcers who contributed their voices to the speech database, as well as the Commercial Director of the company developing the JAWS for Windows screen reader software.

The ProfiVox Hungarian-language speech synthesizer was developed in 2000 and has since been continuously updated by Mátyás Bartalis in line with advances in information technology..

Pictured from left to right: Péter Korbuly, Gábor Olaszy, Mihály Szuhaj (President), Eszter Terescsik, and Géza Németh.