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A 22-year-old visually challenged youth from Sorab, has designed text-to-speech software, to enable visually challenged persons read Kannada script on computer.
T.S. Sreedhar has modified the software, which was accessible in English and other languages. The software has been modified, to make it communicate with Kannada-speakers, in the visually challenged community.
A resident of Abasi village about 10 km from Sorab town, Sridhar is the son of an areca grower, and lives in a joint family, comprising eight members. He has developed ‘e-speak’ and screen reader software, which will convert the Kannada writings coded in Unicode fonts into audio.
Mr Sridhar said that the software developed in English by Jonathan Daddington, was later modified in 74 languages including Marathi, Tamil, and Hindi. A student of Ashakirana School for Blind in Chikmagalur, Sridhar obtained a diploma in computer applications for the visually challenged. He is grateful to his family members, especially brother Vinayak, for encouraging his work.
He wants the free software in Kannada to be easily accessible to the visually challenged. He is confident of improving the speech to text software in Kannada. Sridhar who is proficient in Kannada, Hindi and English says, “Kannada can be preserved and developed, by providing sources of information and knowledge through the language, and not through self-important conferences and rajyotsavas.”
He said that anyone could make their computers speak Kannada, after installing the open screen reader software. He can be contacted at 9980989171 or tss.sbs@gmail.com.
T.S. Sreedhar has modified the software, which was accessible in English and other languages. The software has been modified, to make it communicate with Kannada-speakers, in the visually challenged community.
A resident of Abasi village about 10 km from Sorab town, Sridhar is the son of an areca grower, and lives in a joint family, comprising eight members. He has developed ‘e-speak’ and screen reader software, which will convert the Kannada writings coded in Unicode fonts into audio.
Mr Sridhar said that the software developed in English by Jonathan Daddington, was later modified in 74 languages including Marathi, Tamil, and Hindi. A student of Ashakirana School for Blind in Chikmagalur, Sridhar obtained a diploma in computer applications for the visually challenged. He is grateful to his family members, especially brother Vinayak, for encouraging his work.
He wants the free software in Kannada to be easily accessible to the visually challenged. He is confident of improving the speech to text software in Kannada. Sridhar who is proficient in Kannada, Hindi and English says, “Kannada can be preserved and developed, by providing sources of information and knowledge through the language, and not through self-important conferences and rajyotsavas.”
He said that anyone could make their computers speak Kannada, after installing the open screen reader software. He can be contacted at 9980989171 or tss.sbs@gmail.com.
