We are committed to include TTS available from any source if such exist. As of now Nuance came out with only these Indian languages. Two options are available for Gujarati and other Indian languages that are not covered by Nuance:
1. E-speak: This was developed by developers and testers in India including Mahesh Khosla, Himprasad Gautam and Mahiti (software company). We had testers from various blindness organisations for different languages. For example, we had AK Trust for Gujarati language. This development happened in a project led by Centre for Internet and Society and Saksham. 2. Hear2Read: This TTS for Gujarati is available on android and trials are on to get this on Windows PC too. Mr Suresh Bazaj, an Indian living in San Francisco understood the desperate requirement of persons with blindness in India and has been putting his personal efforts and money to hire resources in CMU including time of Prof Black and research scholars working under him to have this TTS solution for us. His efforts are being acknowledged this year through NCPEDP universal design award. 3. TDIL's TTS consortium project: This is now open source. However, this TTS works on Lynux with ORCA only. We do not have a port of this on Android or Windows. The task is not small as many developers have tried for this port and failed. However, it is certainly doable if dedicated resources are put on it for some given period of time. We had e-speak development in our own hands which we did. Hear2Read too is something that is being developed through very active participation of blindness community. Other than this, we rely on companies or TTS developers to release the TTS that we can include in NVDA whenever they are available. Development by known TTS companies depend on business opportunities. We offer very little of that due to us taking pride in our piracy skills. Else we can get these by committing huge amount of up to 250000 euros or so for a company to dedicate resources to develop one language TTS. Our governments do spend such amounts on developing TTS but getting such money to be given to a private company and that too a foreign company is a big ask. However everything is possible if we have connections at right places. Thanks Dipendra Thanks Dipendra -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Jeegar Pithava Sent: 25 July 2017 21:48 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Subject: Re: [AI] inroducing Indo-NVDA Dear Sir, Great to know, is there any development going on to include Gujarati language in such package? I often think to have stable clear voice in my regional language but I don't know how I can contribute in its development, also to whom we can request to make it reality? On 7/25/2017 9:04 AM, Dipendra Manocha wrote: > Dear all > > We are excited to announce launch of INDO NVDA which is a customized > VERSION of NVDA for Indian languages. Indo NVDA includes 14 Nuance > vocalizer and Eloquence voices in 10 different Languages (Indian English, British English, > American English, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and > Marathi). > To Listen to the sample of voices, go to: > http://indo-nvda.saksham.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/INDO-NVDA-jing > le.mp3 . NVDA already includes e-speak voices of all Indian languages. > The software is designed to make computers accessible for visually > impaired people in all parts of the country. The DVD of the software > includes Itools, the self-learning tutorial package from Enable > India. It is yet another step of SAKSHAM in empowering persons with > blindness in collaboration with Enable India as we believe in limiting > limitations. > > This version of Indo-NVDA is a free upgrade for all those who have > purchased NVDA vocalizer voices license earlier from saksham. 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