Subject: [Talking Tech With Startbutton] GoldWave 5.56 has bin released.
And this update looks like a real great one.
Here' is what's new.
GoldWave Revision History
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v5.56
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Added Speech Converter tool for text to speech and speech
recognition processing.
Be sensitive to blind people, Bombay high court tells govt
Hetal Vyas / DNA
Friday, June 18, 2010 0:56 IST
Mumbai:
Maharashtra government's attitude treating persons with total and
partial blindness
'uniformly' while considering them for jobs under the physically
challenged quota
has not gone
June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Patients blinded in one or both eyes by
chemical burns regained their vision after healthy stem cells were
extracted from their eyes and reimplanted, according to a report by
Italian researchers at a scientific meeting.
The tissue was drawn from the limbus, an area at the
Here's an article someone posted to another list which I thought might
be good to read since your players have these batteries in them. The
article is from 2007, so some aspects may have changed within that
time. I personally let my player run down to 10% or below and then
charge it overnight and
Haptics brings a personal touch to technology
Page last updated at 11:04 GMT, Monday, 5 July 2010 12:04 UK
By Michael Fitzpatrick
Tokyo, Japan
Touch Screen
Touch screen has proved popular - but how about a computer that touches back?
When Aldous Huxley described the 'Feelies' of his 1930s satire
HC seeks govt take on admission to disabled
Shibu Thomas, TNN, Jul 28, 2010, 03.12am IST
MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government
to clarify
its stand on allowing visually challenged and other disabled students
from pursuing
professional and health science courses.
Lab Made Cornea Offers New Hope For Restored Vision
bc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11071923?print=true
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Technology Extends Theaters Thrills To Blind Patrons.
ttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/theater/technology-extends-theaters-thrills-to-blind-patrons.html?smid=tw-nytimes_r=0
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I have been getting a “Page Not Found” message whenever I click on a Sendspace
download link since yesterday morning. Trying to open the Sendspace homepage
from Google also displays the same
3D Printed Ring Reads Out Text In Real Time For The Blind.
http://phys.org/print324010714.html
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio
reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is
impaired, giving them affordable and
eet the retired Mirzas who make the best of HAM radios
In between noting down in Braille about those who have checked in,
72-year-old Perviz
Mirza excitedly demands that the walkie-talkie be handed over to her! Though she
and her 70-year-old brother, Vispi, take turns to go online on
alternate
Smart Shoes Guide Runners The Blind With Vibrations.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/24/lechal-smart-shoes
Ducere
An Indian company has come up with a sleek solution to wearable technology that
is entirely useful and doesn't involve reading any tiny screens. The
The Blind hacker Who Inspired Apple.
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36doc_id=1319078
This is the story of a brilliant, highly skilled young man's journey that
spawned an entire new industry of engineers and arguably was the true seed
inspiring
the creation of Apple.
In 1968,
Cell transplants 'restore sight'
Cell transplants have successfully restored vision to
mice which had lost their sight, leading to hopes
people could benefit in the same way.
UK scientists treated animals which had eye damage
similar to that seen in many human eye diseases.
They were able to
There is an update to JAWS 8 available on Freedom
Scientifics' website.
To retrieve it, go to your JAWS window. Use the Alt
key to call up the
menu bar. Use the left or right arrow keys to move to
help. Then, use
the down arrow key to go to the Check for Updates
item. Finally, press
the Enter key,
A group of researchers at Georgia Tech have created a new piece of
software called BrailleTouch that allows users to type on a smartphone
without looking at the screen. It takes advantage of gestures and
multitouch interaction to support a chorded typing system that is
modeled after Braille
Madurai, Feb. 27:
An audio and Braille library for the visually-challenged students of
the Indian Association for the Blind (IAB) Madurai, with the support
of Amway Opportunity Foundation (AOF) and Amway distributors was
inaugurated on Sunday.
Equipped with text books, magazines, general books
Indian Engineers Modify Microsoft's Kinect To Help The Blind Walk With
Confidence.
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Voice-activated assistants are playing an increasingly prominent role
in the technology world, with Apple's introduction of Siri for the
iPhone 4S and Google's (rumored) work on a Siri competitor for Android
phones.
Voice-activated technology isn't new—it's just getting better because
of
Blind Mice Eyesight Treated With Transplanted Cells.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17748165?print=true
'Blind' mice eyesight treated with transplanted cells
British scientists have restored the sight of blind mice by transplanting
light-sensitive photoreceptor cells into their eyes.
9) WebAIM has another fascinating screen reader survey for which they would
like responses.
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Light Powered bionic eye Invented To Help Restore Sight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18061174?print=true
Light-powered bionic eye invented to help restore sight
By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News
A retinal implant - or bionic eye - which is powered by light has been
Seems a great development subject to trying it out and getting more detailed
information. The hitch is that it costs US $ 2,495.00! (about Rs. 1.25lakhs).
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:34:29 -0400
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Must the old version be uninstalled first, or does it just overwrite when you
install?
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Maharashtra Reinstates Visually Impaired Clerk To College.
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EVMS With Braille Facility This Time.
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Pakistan's Cricketers Rule the Blind Game
By
NICOLAS BRULLIARD
LAHORE, Pakistan –Abdul Razzaq is one of the most decorated players in
international cricket. When he's been captain, his team hasn't lost a tournament
since 2002. He is a two-time world champion and holds several world records in
can
the latest news of indian blind
cricket team can be found? i'm looking for those.
with warm regards, Anirban Mukherjee
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Pakistan's Cricketers Rule the Blind Game
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NICOLAS BRULLIARD
LAHORE, Pakistan –Abdul Razzaq is one
Technologies To Restore Sight To Retina Damaged Eyes.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=retinitis-pigmentosa-retina-implant-techprint=true
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http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/programs.htm
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) On Main Menu for GMT Saturday 24 November, you will hear about JAWS 14, the
MiniGuide mobility aid, and the Reminders app in Mountain Lion. Listen to
the program at 02:00 GMT and for the next 24 hours at:
http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream
Or get it from the archive later at:
Thanks. That's very useful.
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The process
Blind Drivers At The Wheel.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21720318
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/includes/1024/screen/audio_console.shtml?stream=live
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the following information is taken from the Winamp home page at
www.winamp.com:
Winamp.comand associated web services will no longer be available past
December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be
available for download. Please
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Big breakthrough in cure for blindness
,TNN
|
Dec 18, 2013, 04.00 PM IST
The breakthrough could lead to the production of artificial tissue
grafts made from
the variety of cells found in the human retina.
RELATED
LONDON: In a major breakthrough, an
inkjet printer
in Britain can print eye cells
d section.
In what could be India’s largest multi-level car parking (MLCP) at an airport,
the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport has made a special section
dedicated for cars of differently-abled people.
Officials involved with the development of the project said there will be
Man Saved From Blindness By Gene Therapy.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/man-saved-blindness-gene-therapy/story?id=21578118singlePage=true
help Courtesy Nick Tuftnell
At age 10 Nick Tuftnell knew he was going to end up blind after being diagnosed
with the genetic condition choroideremia.
The
The Village Where Half The People Are At Risk Of Blindness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25877285#sa-ns_mchannel=rssns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
The village where half the people are at risk of blindness
By Angela Robson BBC Health Check
People queue for screening and treatment
In the
BBC: Hassan Khan: Blind Cricket Changed My Life.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29424906
More players are now taking up blind cricket than ever before but why is the
sport becoming increasingly popular?
A bowler running in at full steam, a batsman looking for gaps in the field and
a
The blind man leading the blind orchestra
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-29688039
Baluji Shrivastav is one of the music world's most in-demand sitar players.
Blind since the age of four, he's now leading an ensemble of blind musicians.
Baluji Shrivastav has played on Top of the Pops
BBC: Headset Guides Blind People In Cities.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29913637
A headset that talks visually impaired people around cities has been designed
by Microsoft.
It works with a Windows phone and uses location and navigation data with a
network of information beacons in
England prepares for the blind cricket World Cup
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30166570
Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in!
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Seventh Grader Builds A Braille Printer With $350 Worth Of Legos.
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This sounds amazing!
Indian wearable device Fin gets huge pre-orders
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/hardware/Indian-wearable-device-Fin-gets-huge-pre-orders/articleshow/31761591.cms
BANGALORE: A wearable device developed by a 23-year-old Indian based in Kerala
has
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As you may have read in my post earlier this week about the end of days for
Windows XP, Microsoft will cease
Visually Challenged Smell Jobs.
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_visually-challenged-smell-jobs_1697814
Visually challenged smell jobs
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| Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
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Scientists believe they may be on the cusp of
Human echolocation: Using tongue-clicks to navigate the world
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5) ZCaptcha is a new service blind users can try for solving CAPTCHAs. There is
a minimal cost to use the service because the people doing the solving
are themselves paid a small amount.
http://www.azavia.com/zcaptcha
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Researchers at Stanford University recently announced that they have
developed a new artificial retina implant that uses photovoltaic power
and could help the blind see. The problem with previous implants was
that there was no way send power to the chip in order
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/business/global/02glasses.html?pagewanted=print
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The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded major responsibility for the
development of a third-generation retina prosthesis to Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, California. The third-generation
artificial retina will enable previously blind people to read,
recognize people's faces and
BooksShouldBeFree houses thousands of books in the public domain,
available as both MP3s and as iTunes format audiobooks. Each entry for
a book includes links to the full text, supplemental text, and
reviews.
The reviews are particularly helpful because they are specific to the
actual audiobook
Thai boxing champion fights blindness for glory
Reuters
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 14:21 IST
Surin:
Sujet Salee is a Thai boxing champion with an impressive fight
record, but the 29-year-old
also stands out among his peers for another reason: he's blind.
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London, April 30 (ANI): A four-year-old blind boy named Jamie Aspland uses
echolocation to see - just like dolphins.
Jamie makes clicking noises with his tongue that makes him virtually know where
things around him are lying.
It's amazing, his 39-year-old mother Deborah
Navigating Cities, For The Blind
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Multimedia Devices
- Q and A.
+12: Moving On Up
by Isaac Porat.
In February last year, E-Access Bulletin reported on
development
plans for 'SpeakOn', a hardware device aimed at
providing access to
selected news and entertainment audio web content
without the need
for high IT skills. The
+06: Easy Read: A View plain text option
link, enabling access to
the text layer of electronic books has been made
available on
Accessible Google Book this month. The facility, on
the Google
Accessible Search project, was launched by search
engine company
Google allowing users of assistive
The ability of zebrafish to regenerate damaged retinas
has given
scientists a clue about restoring human vision and
could lead to an
experimental treatment for blindness within five
years.
British researchers said on Wednesday they had
successfully grown in
the laboratory a type of adult stem
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile system promises free
calls
BBC NEWS
Mobile system promises free calls
A new way of making calls directly between phones, for
free, is being trialled by a Swedish company.
It is hoping to dramatically improve communications in
the developing world.
Swedish company
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The Times of India -Breaking news, views. reviews,
cricket from across India
Enzyme that triggers eye development
26 Oct 2007, 0537 hrs IST
PARIS: Researchers say they have identified a
key enzyme that triggers eye development,
in a discovery that could
Yahoo screen reader to open new vistas for visually
impaired
Reema Jose
How popular can Internet be with the visually
impaired? A lot, it appeared,
as the visually challenged users in Bangalore
navigated through the web with
the help of a screen reader.
Victor Tsaran, the accessibility guru at
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cricket from across India
Blindness cure for cavefish possible
9 Jan 2008, 0020 hrs IST
NEW YORK: It's a research which brings a ray
of hope for hundreds of visually impaired
people across the globe -
BBC NEWS | Technology | Warning on stealthy Windows
virus
BBC NEWS
Warning on stealthy Windows virus
Security experts are warning about a stealthy Windows
virus that steals login details for online bank
accounts.
In the last month, the malicious program has racked up
about 5,000 victims - most of
Jobs Reveals Tiny New Laptop
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve
Jobs took the
wraps off a super-slim new laptop Tuesday, unveiling a
personal
computer less than an inch thick that turns on the
moment it's opened.
At its beefiest, the new computer is 0.76 inches
thick; at its
Implanting a micro-camera directly into the eyeball
may be a future
solution for restoring sight to people with damaged
vision, according
to this patent application. The camera could be
charged wirelessly,
and communicate directly with a chip implanted at the
back of the eye,
so very little
Business Line
Hutch PCOs in BEST buses
Wednesday, 27 December , 2006, 10:10
Mumbai:
Very soon Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and
Transport Undertaking (BEST) bus commuters
will be able to make calls to any destination in India
while travelling.
BEST and Hutch are into a partnership with the
telecom
December 28, 2006
Connect All Those Devices to Your PC, but Forget the
Cables
By
STEPHEN C. MILLER
There are few peripherals that do not connect to a
computer via U.S.B. ports leading to a boom in
U.S.B. hubs, which let you connect multiple devices
via one port on the computer. With the
FileDir 1.0
Released January 1, 2007
FileDir, a file and directory manager, is intended
to be a generally
superior alternative to Windows Explorer or My
Computer for managing
a
computer file system in an efficient, accessible
manner. It is
particularly designed to optimize productivity by
users
Imagine being blind and trying to find your way around
a city you've never visited
before -- that can be challenging for a sighted
person. Georgia Tech researchers
are developing a wearable computing system called the
System for Wearable Audio Navigation
(SWAN) designed to help the visually
From the Associated Press:
Blind Photographers Show Work in Israel
By MARSHALL THOMPSON
The Associated Press
Friday, February 9, 2007; 5:46 AM
TEL AVIV, Israel -- Reaching above her dark glasses,
Riki Fritsh held a
compact camera to her forehead and snapped away at a
group of passengers
boarding
SYDNEY: A blind British pilot is to take off this
weekend in a bid to fly his microlight plane to
Australia, news reports said on Saturday.
Miles Hilton-Barber, 55, will be sitting alongside
sighted pilot Storm Smith in his attempt to become the
first blind pilot to fly from London to Sydney,
a
[print version] IBM tool 'reads' Web video for blind |
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IBM tool 'reads' Web video for blind
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IBM
- Wayfinder partners up with Code Factory
Wayfinder is pleased to announce yet another
cooperation with an international company specializing
in accessibility products; Code Factory. This
cooperation
ensures that Wayfinder Access will be powered by
Mobile Speak, Code Factory's innovative screen
Flying no bar for this blind adventurer
Anjali Joseph | TNN
Mumbai: Miles Barber-Hilton sat in a cramped
positionhis knees wedged
against his copilot, Richard Meredith Hardy's
shouldersin a
fibreglass microlight plane that was about the length
of a Mumbai
taxi. It was a recent flight above
BBC NEWS | Technology | IBM helps blind 'see' web
video
BBC NEWS
IBM helps blind 'see' web video
By Geoff Adams-Spink
Age disability correspondent, BBC News website
Technology giant, IBM, is soon to launch a multimedia
browser to make audio and video content accessible to
people with vision
For your information..
Google has implemented a new feature which enables you
to type a
telephone
number into the search bar and hit enter and you will
be given the
person's
name and address. If you then hit MapQuest, you will
get a map to the
person's house. Everyone should be aware of this!
SYDNEY: A blind British pilot landed his
microlight aircraft in Sydney on Monday
to complete a record-breaking flight halfway around
the world.
Miles Hilton-Barber left London on March 7 and
flew more than 21,000 kilometres to
raise funds to fight blindness in developing
countries.
It's the
Reading Software: An open source project to develop
state of the
art optical character recognition (OCR) software is
underway at the
University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. Sponsored by
Google, the
OCRopus development group welcomes contributions from
programmers to create a system suitable for
PTI
IT cos open doors for visually challenged
Tuesday, 12 June , 2007, 10:11
Chennai:
As part of their special responsibilities,
information technology industry in India
is slowly opening its eyes towards the visually
challenged by offering them jobs,
training and even taking up infrastructural
Blindfolded, they experienced disability
Published: Thursday, Sep 9, 2010, 2:22 IST
By Mihika Basu | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
Imagine working, boarding a bus or even shopping blindfolded.
This is exactly what students and professionals experienced at a
sensitisation workshop-cum-exhibition
A Blind Man Goes Sailing.
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With GDrive, desktop PC will go online
26 Jan 2009, 2332 hrs IST, AGENCIES
LONDON: Search engine giant Google will soon launch a service that would enable
users
to access their personal computer from any internet connection making the
desktop
computer virtually redundant, predict technology
Chennai hospital gives 4-month-old a new eye
11 Feb 2009, 0434 hrs IST, TNN
CHENNAI: For nearly a month, the four-month-old
boy was writhing in pain. His right
eye had bulged out as the cornea, iris, pupil and
lens was severely infected, a condition
called anterior staphyloma, making it
Stem cell transplant gives him gift of sight
Deepa Suryanarayan
Friday, February 13, 2009 2:58 IST
Mumbai:
Two-year-old Pratik Patil does not know it yet, but he has just been
bestowed with
the gift of sight. Thanks to a new procedure performed for the first
time in Mumbai,
Pratik may get back
A Rs 500 Audio Computer
22 Feb, 2009, 1148 hrs IST,MUMBAI MIRROR
Text:
Literacy Bridge, a non-profit organisation based
in the US, has developed a new sub-$
10 audio computer called the Talking Book Device, which
is designed to improve literacy skills and
facilitate access to information for
BBC NEWS
Bionic eye gives blind man sight
A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can
now see flashes of light after
being fitted with a bionic eye.
Ron, 73, had the experimental surgery seven
months ago at London's Moorfield's eye
hospital.
He says he can now follow white lines on
A touch-screen phone for the blind
2 Apr 2009, 0020 hrs IST, ANI
LONDON: Scientists have now created a vibrating
touch screen phone that can simulate
Braille characters and bring the benefits of
touch-screen technology to visually
challenged people. Taking a major step towards
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8) With Jamal Mazrui's release of version 3.3 of pdf2txt, the program is
probably the most powerful free way under Windows to turn pdf files into
easily-readable
text. It now incorporates three different text conversion methods, an html
GW Micro and accessaphoneMake Office Phones
Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired
For people who are blind or have vision impairments , accessing a phone in a
typical office can be a difficult challenge. Caller ID and other important
pieces of information are presented visually on the
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Web tool 'as important as Google'
A web tool that could be as important as Google, according to some experts,
has
been shown off to the public.
Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram.
The free program aims to answer questions directly, rather than
BBC NEWS
Blind boy starts China treatment
A blind boy flown to China for stem cell therapy to try and improve his sight
has
started to receive treatment.
Joshua Clark's grandfather said so far the 22-month-old from Caernarfon,
Gwynedd,
was doing very well.
He and members of his family flew from
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