No, not at the moment, although a pilot project is in a planning stage. Thanks. Venkatraman
-----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Renuka Warriar Edakkunni Sent: 15 July 2014 11:14 To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] New books on Bookshare Sir, Will you add audio recorded books alsofor which TTS is not available? Renuka. On 7/15/14, Venkataraman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Srinivasu, > > Bookshare has books in Tamil as well as in Hindi, (as working tts > available only for these two Indian languages at present) though the > number is quite less, about 250-300 in each, but the collection in > English is huge, about 160,000. Bookshare is trying to add more books > in these Indian languages based on the members request and with > tie-ups with publishers. Once the tts is available for other Indian > languages, they will try to add books in those languages also. > > N. Venkataraman, > Outreach & Training Consultant-South, Bookshare India. Phone 9443309001. > Email [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: 15 July 2014 08:42 > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues > concerning the disabled. > Subject: Re: [AI] New books on Bookshare > > Pardon my ignorance. But a quick question that does book share only > has books in English or Indian languages too? > > Regards, > Srinivasu Chakravarthula | PayPal | @csrinivasu Sent from my iPhone 5C > >> On 14-Jul-2014, at 23:00, Kristina Pappas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> Thank you for supporting Bookshare and for asking good questions >> about how > to get ths most out of it. Bookshare is trying to find a good way to > highlight new books of interest for Indian readers. We are adding so > many books so quickly that sending messages about all new books would > fill up your inboxes. >> >> For example, at the time of the AI convention in February, there were >> just > over 1 lakh books available to Bookshare members in India. In the last > few months, we signed agreements with Penguin and Wiley, among other > publishers, and we now have over 160,000 books available to Bookshare > members in India! >> >> Among Indian publishers, we have signed agreements this year with > Dreamtech, Tulika, Navayana, and Cre-A, and we expect more to come soon. >> >> As I mentioned, we're planning to highlight books of particular >> interest > to Indian readers on this list and elsewhere. In the meantime, the > best way to find new books coming into the collection is to browse for > books that are newly added: >> https://www.bookshare.org/browse/latest >> >> Best wishes, >> Kristina >> >> Kristina Pappas >> International Program Manager >> www.bookshare.org >> Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >> >> Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing >> accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: >> http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_ac >> c >> essindia.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.or >> g >> .in >> >> >> Disclaimer: >> 1. 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