Dear all (AI) Friends:
TVG [Technical Voluntary Group] is working in Tamil Nadu to develop more
accessibility assistance to the VI people. Recently TVG has developed a
software named "VALAYA_VEDAN" and officially released in its site
thirdeyetvg.com
which is to convert pdf files into tamil Unicode format. It's working very
well and We are able to read those documents by using e-speak with jaws or by
NVDA.
Unicode is a character
encoding standard that has widespread acceptance. Microsoft software uses
Unicode at its core. Whether you realize it or not, you are using Unicode
already! Basically, "computers just deal with numbers. They store letters
and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode
was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for
assigning these numbers. No single encoding could contain enough
characters.1" This has been the problem we, in SIL, have often run into.
If you are using a legacy encoding your font conflicts with the font
someone in another area of the world uses. You might have an in your
font
while someplace else someone used a at the same codepoint. Your files
are
incompatible. Unicode provides a unique number for every character and so
you do not have this problem if you use Unicode. If your document calls
for U+0289 it will be clear to any computer program what the character
should be
Now TVG has decided to support other regional languages on the bases of
request.
Those who are interested in developing accessiblity assistance in their
language may contact them through email .
Email ID: [email protected]
As you know e-speak is a synthesisor which supports in many languages. Nearly
one year dedicated effort of Mr. T. D. Dinakar DPO Southern Railways Chennai,
co-ordinating with Mr. Jonathan Duddington contact person of e-speak project
has made e-speak to read tamil more perfectly. Its' phonetical expression is so
good. Having e-speak as default synthesisor, NVDA becomes a very good screen
reader in tamil.
Interested people may contact Mr. Jonathan Duddington via email to make
phonetical adjustments in e-speak unto speak their language more perfectly.
Email ID: [email protected]
Download site for e-speak is:
http://www.espeak.sourceforge.net
With regards,
-G. VENGATESHAN.
My Mobile: 09003349780
Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with
disability bill at:
http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm
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
