Dear All, Please find the below Daily Eyeway Alerts: 1. News- Divya Nayan-A Personal Reading Machine For Visually Impaired Is Easily Available To The Needy Across The Country Through Online Registration- Dr. Jitendra Singh. New Delhi: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh today Divya Nayan is a personal reading machine for visually impaired developed by CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh where any printed or digital documents can be accessed in the form of speech output. The device is available to visually impaired individuals and institutions through an online registration and booking portal https://divyanayan.csio.res.in/registration.php on its website. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, the Minister said that based on the principle of contact scanning, it can analyze a multi-column document and provide a seamless reading. Users can place the device over the document to be read and manually scan it. The reading device uses language-dependent optical character recognition to convert the image into text and a text-to-speech converter further converts the text into audio. Audio files are stored in the machine and can be listened back. The device is handheld, standalone, portable, completely wireless and IoT enabled. It is currently available in Hindi, English, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Punjabi but is further compatible for other Indian and foreign languages. It has interfaces such as USB, Bluetooth, Wifi, LAN, Headphone, etc. The salient features of the device are as below: Feature/s: Wireless and Portable – standalone, completely wireless, and IoT enabled; Multifunctional – read printed, e-books, e-news, recording, and reading speech; Multilanguage – currently supports Hindi, English, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Punjabi; Online Processing – document batch processing organisation; Some of the other significant devices developed by CSIR for the benefit of the common man are as below: Myoelectric Hand for the persons having below the elbow amputation; Electronic Knee for the persons having above-knee amputation; Electronic Control Module for a powered wheelchair; and 3D Printed Orthosis for children with congenital hemiparesis. Source: https://indiaeducationdiary.in/divya-nayan-a-personal-reading-machine-for-visually-impaired-is-easily-available-to-the-needy-across-the-country-through-online-registration-dr-jitendra-singh/
Inclusion The Motto I just wanted to share something that I've been working on for quite a while with you all. It started out as a youtube channel known as "Inclusion The Motto", the idea behind which was to bridge the gap between the blind and sighted, to empower and educate sited folk on how we blind do various things, to also hopefully try to reduce some of the not-too-great ideologies they hold about us, all the stereotypes, etc. I often think it is also the lack of knowledge and not ignorance that may lead to such ideas or encounters. I have tried to put this message across in all the videos I've uploaded in an interactive and fun way, often having people on who's had first-hand experience(either because they themselves are blind and have managed to be quite successful in life or people directly associated to blind folk who were able to give a much better insight into how things work and clear many of the doubts that people have). My content has always been for everyone to listen to, as some of the tips given by the blind/VI people I interviewed proved to be quite useful in our lives as well to tackle all the challenges that we face on a daily basis. However, recently I have started working on a brand new series of sorts which I think will be especially useful for us folk who rely on screen readers for our daily life tasks. So quite often, at least here where I come from, I've come across this mindset that us blind people cannot tackle higher-level mathematics and science subjects, because they are too graphical, they cannot be represented with a screen reader accurately enough and although this may be true to an extent where extremely complicated geometric figures or graphs are involved, things such as symbols and equations can be written (and red) just fine. What is sad is that here, many blind students start believing it as well and give up on said subjects, dropping them entirely in high school even if they wish to study them further. Either that, or they end up going for a scribe(writer) to write their exams for them. This is exactly what this series intends to improve. I, myself, am a hundred percent blind student, have been by birth. Therefore, I have a reasonably good idea of the challenges that come into play when doing stem subjects on a computer with screen-reading software. However, I did not drop them after 10th grade when we usually get to select the subjects that we intend on pursuing for our final two years of school; neither did I opt for a scribe. I was interested in them, so I decided to take that leap into the unknown, as it were. I am very much happy to say that this is possible, and the technologies that I got to discover along the way are what I will be showing off in the series, as they are unfortunately not as well known as they should be. Therefore, please share the link of the channel around to people that you know who might be in need of this; technology is improving day by day and It is my hope that one day us blind kids will be able to safely say that science and maths subjects are completely inclusive and accessible, something that we can study without hassle along with our sighted counterparts. However, this also requires determination, as well as knowledge. The knowledge that I hope to impart from this series, and the channel in general. I hope you like it, and please do not hesitate to tell us what you think in the comments section, feedback is what Inclusion The Motto is all about. Without further ado, here is the link for the channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/inclusionthemotto And here is the link for the Inclusion The Motto blog: http://aarushbhat.wordpress.com 2. Event- Webinar on Kitchen Management Have you ever tried preparing a delicious food item by yourself, but your blindness prevented you from doing so and you start losing hope? A grilled green sandwich or a pizza or stuffed paratha, which one sounds most mouth-watering? which one you've tried to cook on your own? Have tried cutting vegetables or fruits? Dared to make paneer or butter or Ghee at home? All this may sound complicated and challenging for the visually impaired but is equally fun with a bit of hand-holding and practice. Therefore, We will be bringing another unique and interesting webinar on Kitchen management, where a group of experts will tell us how cooking can be made enjoyable for us despite our sight loss. To listen to such interesting dialogue and to learn the tips and tricks, do visit our YouTube Channel https://youtube.com/NABDelhiOnline On Sunday, 8th August 2021 from 04:00 pm onwards. To make the webinar interesting 5 participants will be given a chance to share their experiences on a first come first serve basis. You can send your questions for the panelists by filling up the below google form latest by Wednesday, 4th August 2021. https://forms.gle/4QFg2ErkCYurjNqy9 -- With Warm Regards, Ritu Jain Eyeway Helpdesk Counselor Eyeway Helpdesk Toll Free: 1800 53 20469 (Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm) Email: eyewayhelpd...@gmail.com Website: http://eyeway.org.in/ Contact: 9711982580 You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there. -- 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. 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