Conference on Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies
Ideas on Assistive and Rehabilitation technologies to improve the participation of elderly, differently-abled and those who are in need of any assistive technologies in day to day activities,
List of software
Indian Government Launches Text To Speech
Text-to-Speech (TTS) is computer software which renders the machine readable text into Human Voice. The TTS software allows people with visual impairments or reading disabilities to listen to written text and works on a computer or a mobile device.
Assistance to Disabled Entrepreneurs
Loan may be provided for manufacturing, fabrication and production activity. The disabled person will be the owner/chief executive of the company and employing at least 15% disabled persons. Maximum amount of loan provided under the scheme is Rs.20.00 lakh.
Multilingual Systems and Software for the Visually Handicapped
During the past decade, the Systems Development Laboratory in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras has been involved with a software project of national relevance. The project relates to the development of software for using computers in Indian languages. The basic aim of the project is to develop tools for teaching the use of computers to those who do not speak English. In the context of IT in Indian languages, this project has assumed great significance, for the lab has not only succeeded in providing the required software but has extended the same for use by visually handicapped persons in the country.
Balagurukulam
These objectives can be achieved only if educated and elite people take the responsibility and lead the path for these disabled abandoned children of the society.This social imbalance is the root cause for increasing criminalism, anti-social and anti-national activities where these less fortunate children of the society are made scapegoats and victims because of want of opportunity to come up in life, If these children are shown light they too can lead a decent living and become good citizens.
Mohammed Asif creates UID framework for differently abled
Mohammed Asif Iqbal, 34, is visually impaired, but has a keen sense of boundaries being crossed. The consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Kolkata bristles every time he hears of a differently-abled person struggling through the maze of Indian bureaucracy for a job. It reminds him of his own ordeal with something as simple as procuring a disability certificate.
Mobile phone for visually impaired
Mobile Speak – Talking Mobile Phone Software So far, the blind faced tremendous challenges daily in accessing information while on the move or for that matter in communicating with the world around them. They had to depend on their sighted colleagues, friends or relatives or the people on the road to help them with locating […]