can any1 post that particular link?? is it operational already??
is it good??
even accessability wise??
plz post the link whoever knows of it.
thanx.
On 4/1/14, Prashant Naik wrote:
> Sharing a news article.
> Record your favorite poem for blind people
>
> Nergish Sunavala,TNN | Apr 1, 2014
>
> MUMBAI: Prathamesh Bendre is a 19-year-old political science student from
> St Xavier's College. He is also a poet with his own blog. But unlike most
> poets, he can't choose a book and curl up in a secluded corner. When he
> wants to hear a new poem, Bendre, who has been visually challenged from
> birth, has to rely on audio books, a monotonous screen-reading software or
> patient friends and relatives.
>
> A new initiative 'Your Voice, Their World' will soon give Bendre a
> superior option. Since March 3rd, individuals from across the country have
> been logging onto a website or downloading an app and recording their
> favorite poems. Already over 800 poems -- both original compositions and
> ones by established poets like William Shakespeare and Harivansh Rai
> Bachchan -- have been recorded. The poems will then be compiled into a
> digital archive, which can be accessed by a network of over 10,000 visually
> impaired individuals from across India. This project, which is the
> brainchild of the National Association of the Blind (NAB) in Delhi, Japan's
> Omron Corporation and healthcare advertising network, McCann Health, was
> initially restricted to academic and vocational textbooks but gradually
> morphed into its present avatar.
>
> "Only 1% of the print material in India is accessible to the blind and
> that too mostly consists of textbooks," explained Ankur Sachin Bhat,
> manager of corporate communications at Omron. "But blind people also have
> the same recreational needs of listening to good songs and poems, so we
> thought of creating an online library of poems." As of now, the archive is
> restricted to English and Hindi but it might soon be expanded to include
> regional languages. This is particularly important because there are no
> screen-reading softwares for regional languages, explained Prashant Ranjan,
> joint secretary of the NAB, Delhi.
>
> Each of the 1000 poems listed on the website can be recorded by three
> separate individuals and only the best version will be included in the
> archive. Despite these precautions, Bendre worries that the "delivery" of
> the poems might leave something to be desired though he agrees that the
> archive is a step in the right direction. "I am glad that NAB is doing
> something in the field of poetry because even in general, poetry is
> ignored," said the budding John Milton.
>
> Source -
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Mumbai/Record-your-favorite-poem-for-blind-people/articleshow/33034243.cms
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