As part of her thesis project, Dr Nikisha Jariwala, a professor at a Surat college for women has developed a model for blind and low students that converts Hindi, English, and Gujarati text to Braille. The model is being used by students at a local school for blind and low vision students.
A labour of love for over four years for Dr Nikisha Jariwala has finally borne fruit. This professor at the Smt.Tanuben and Dr Manubhai Trivedi College of Information Science in Surat learned Braille to develop a model that can convert Hindi, English, and Gujarat text into Braille. Dr Jariwala started working on the model four years ago as part of her thesis project called 'Design and Development of the model to transliterate digitalised multilingual text into braille and speech - An aid for visually impaired people'. "I wanted to do something that would be socially relevant and that led me to choose this as a topic of research for my thesis. It took me four-and-a-half years of working day and night to develop this to my satisfaction. With this model, people who are blind and low vision can communicate easily with everyone and study like everyone else on an equal footing." - Professor Nikisha Jariwala, Developer Read on to know more https://bit.ly/2lXAcJq Warm Regards, Ramya Venkitesh Newz Hook <http://www.newzhook.com/> Newz Hook is now on WhatsApp <https://newzhook.com/whatsapp> Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
