I guess this news is about the Ubuntu Linux OS that comes bundled with ORCA screen reader. Did this involve any development in India as is claimed by the newspaper ? And, does Orca support Indian languages on its own or do we need to have other TTS engines loaded for this purpose ?
Would appreciate if someone could clarify these points. Thanks and rgds RS M: 98 472 76 126 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of renuka warriar Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:30 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] Low cost software for and by visually impaired The Hindu News Update Service News Update Service Tuesday, October 23, 2007 : 1710 Hrs Sci. & Tech. Low cost software for and by visually impaired Chennai (PTI): A city-based visually impaired software professional has come out with an 'open source voice-enabled software' based on LINUX system, for the benefit of visually handicapped. Krishnakant told reporters here that the `ORCA software' which allowed development of a free (open source) software, reduced the costs as no licence was required. IT companies were at present reluctant to recruit visually impaired as they had to install proprietory software, the licence of which costs a minimum of Rs 70,000 for each computer, he said. C Umashankar, Managing Director, Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu, which was promoting the software, said Rs five lakh investment was needed to install a proprietory software, to be shared by five visually impaired people. But, using the new software, 22 computers could be installed. Krishnakant hoped that with the introduction of the new software, there would be a dramatic improvement in the recruitment of visually impaired by IT companies. The new product had all the facilities similar to any Windows-based software, he said. All business functions and calculations apart from browsing and e-mail facilities were available. It would read not only what appeared on the screen, but also each function carried out by the user. The software could be modified as per the needs of the user and could be re-distributed, he said. The English accent could be modified, language could be changed and any regional language could be introduced 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 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
