Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software they have and it was pleasant news to us. Regards Srikanth.L On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్
Can you share the tool with us? On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software they have and it was pleasant news to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Shiju Alex
Yes for Malayalam wikipedia and its sister projects. We have users from blind schools of Kerala reading Malayalam wikipedia and providing us feedback also. Two softwares are used by them to access Malayalam wikipedia. One is * e-speak* and another is *Dhwani*. Recently few Malayalam wikimedians

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Anoop
Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Shiju, Thank you for the software. While I couldn't find Dhwani, I believe this is the one for eSpeak: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Kindly, verify

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Anoop
Also, online version of Dhvani is avaialble at http://silpa.org.in/TTS Note that this module is experimental. Thanks On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Dhvani can be found here : http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Srikanth

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Shiju Alex
The below online version is a nice way to test it for your language. Remember if Dhwani works fine for Malayalam it is not hard to extend the same for other Indic languages. In fact it is already supporting most of the Indic languages. At least the following languages are supported. - Bengali

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Anoop, Shiju, Thank you for the link(s) and the update. This is good news for us Indic wikipedians. --Regards, Srikanth R. On 26 April 2011 13:49, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: The below online version is a nice way to test it for your language. Remember if Dhwani works fine for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about this quite recently. There is however quite some distance between being visually impairred and being blind. Some people I know are helped with specific fonts that are BIG and/or coloured . The consequence is that he uses different fonts and has them coloured. When I get his

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Thanks for the update. Here is the page for Dhvani. http://dhvani.sourceforge.net/ It is an amazing tool indeed. And Silpa http://silpa.org.in/ is a source base of many interesting stuff, thanks a lot Santhosh and team. Santhosh was introdcing me to the webfont project few days back, they work

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Arun Ganesh
He was from this group called Third Eye in Chennai http://thirdeyetvg.com . They support student volunteers to develop accessible technology. On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Aravind, thank you for the link. It comes very handy. Good to know that the state government is involved in this. Maybe, we could try it in other states. Regards, Srikanth. On 26 April 2011 20:41, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: in Kerala , I have seen many people visually

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?

2011-04-26 Thread Anivar Aravind
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Aravind, thank you for the link. It comes very handy. Good to know that the state government is involved in this. Maybe, we could try it in other states. Regards, Srikanth. The project i mentioned is not