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CTA to pilot ePaper real‑time displays with text‑to‑speech at select stops

Chicago Transit Authority ADA Advisory Committee · July 15, 2025
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Summary

CTA Innovation Studio presented pilots with Global Display Solutions and Papercast for solar/battery ePaper displays that provide real-time arrivals and two text-to-speech options; supply-chain delays moved initial installs to late August 2025.

Eric (recorded in the transcript as both Eric Johnson and later as Eric Benson) presented the Innovation Studio’s ePaper display pilots, describing two vendors (Global Display Solutions and Papercast) and a planned small-scale rollout of up to 18 low-power displays with real-time bus arrival data and text-to-speech accessibility features.

“Every single one of these displays is going to include Text to Speech…

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