News sourced NewzHook accessible mobile app (http://newzhook.com/) App lets the blind in India read in their mother tongue
Vision-impaired people in India often find it difficult to get an audiobook they want in the language they need it in. Now a project from Carnegie Mellon University and its partners is trying to address that with a free Android app called Hear2Read that can be quickly trained to read texts aloud in local languages. Hear2Read has been released supporting Tamil at the moment and other languages like Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, as well as dialects will be released later this year. The Hear2Read software also integrates with Android’s built-in accessibility functions, letting browsers, email apps, and others integrate text to speech. Warm Regards Ramya Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
