On 06/10/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pilot project at NAB?
no way! I know the internals of NAB and by all means they are not going to take this up because unfortunately NAB Mumbai is nothing but a house of curruption and negligence. take my case for example, today I would never have been on this list as a researcher and software developer had I been with them. they are not wanting the blind people to grow independent because then their system will be opened (the mistake britishers did by educating the indians). they had opposed my parents who had put me in a regular school. they had even opposed my campaigns to promote computer awareness for the blind. but there I was successful and forced them to except it. again for the sake of pure earning, they are promoting windows based screen readers and even after demonstrating emacspeak, they refuse to except it. any ways this is off topic and a very very long story of curruption amongst the high to low officials at the organisation. so NAB IS OUT OF QUESTION. I had put up a project for a good screen reader on windows and refered them to even NAB delhi who had done a start on that. but they just threw away the project. they had given a similar rash treatment to scientists from IIT who had a good rehabilitation project for blind. same case with Tata. and ask many blind successful people and like me they too will tell you how much haracement they have faced. so they wont do it.
> the bar code reading was also a good idea to do a prototype at a > very cheep rage. How is that going to work. U will have a 3 foot long barcode for 180 spoken words per minute.
I think it was ronny who started the barcode topic may be he is the right person. I remember anurag had mentioned about RFIDs. regards Krishnakant. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
