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Sparsha: a comprehensive indian language toolset for the blind

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Anirban Lahiri,

Satya Jyoti Chattopadhyay,

Anupam BasuAuthors Info & Claims

Assets '05: Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 114 - 120

https://doi.org/10.1145/1090785.1090807

Published: 09 October 2005 Publication History

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Braille and audio feedback based systems have vastly improved the lives of the visually impaired across a wide majority of the globe. However, more than 13 million visually impaired people in the Indian sub-continent could not benefit much from such systems. This was primarily due to the difference in the technology required for Indian languages compared to those corresponding to other popular languages of the world. In this paper, we describe the Sparsha toolset. The contribution made by this research has enabled the visually impaired to read and write in Indian vernaculars with the help of a computer.

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