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This startup creates customised audio content through voice cloning

Wed, 11/06/2019 - 11:10 -- shabnam.durani@...

Founded in 2018, startup Deepsync Technologies uses AI to learn how you speak and saves hours of recordings, which then helps it to create audio content.

The time taken to produce an audiobook is a minimum of a month. In some cases, this can stretch up to two months. With the digital publishing and ebooks segment holding huge potential looking to the future, consider this – a technology that can reduce the time taken for an audiobook by 90 percent?

This tactile display lets visually impaired users feel on-screen 3D shapes

Tue, 11/05/2019 - 11:39 -- shabnam.durani@...

Using a computer and modern software can be a chore to begin with for the visually impaired, but fundamentally visual tasks like 3D design are even harder. This Stanford team is working on a way to display 3D information, like in a CAD or modeling program, using a “2.5D” display made up of pins that can be raised or lowered as sort of tactile pixels. Taxels!

First in North India: Chandigarh railway station set to become visually-impaired friendly

Thu, 10/31/2019 - 10:03 -- geeta.nair

City’s railway station is set to become the first visually-impaired friendly railway station in North India and fourth in the country.

Bengaluru-based non-government organisation (NGO), Anuprayas, and Northern Railways are heading the project that will tentatively start from November 20 and will be completed within three months.

Under no circumstances will any vacancy for Divyangjan be filled by any other categories, says Railway Ministry

Wed, 10/30/2019 - 15:21 -- geeta.nair

A day after the sit-in-protest at Delhi’s Mandi House by the persons with benchmark disabilities (PwBD) over alleged irregularities in railway recruitment exams, the Indian Railways on Monday assured that candidates would be appointed on merit.

The protests began over Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) Group D jobs in 2018. Several ‘Divyangjan’ (differently abled) students have been protesting since October 23 citing irregularities in the filling up of posts reserved for PwBD in the recent Level-1 recruitment exercise.

Stares of the Blind

Wed, 10/30/2019 - 10:47 -- geeta.nair

Neglected Facet of Human Bonding.
The ways in which blind people connect to the art of seeing without the ocular equipment of the eyes are explored, recognising that seeing is as much a political act as it pertains to human bonding.

What next to aid visually impaired?

Wed, 10/30/2019 - 10:18 -- geeta.nair

The proliferation of standardised Braille opened up the world of knowledge for the visually impaired in 20th century, and now the Marrakesh Treaty — a global agreement to allow published materials in accessible formats to be exchanged freely across borders — is a significant step towards eradicating what is described as “the book famine” in the 21st century.

Tatas, Mahindra and 15 other Indian companies join global disability inclusion campaign as countdown to Davos begins

Fri, 10/25/2019 - 10:39 -- geeta.nair

Tatas, Mahindra and 15 other Indian companies join global disability inclusion campaign as countdown to Davos begins.

A number of Indian businesses have signed up to disability inclusion initiative The Valuable 500, taking the total number of global businesses to sign up to 150.
The Indian market has shown a strong dedication to disability inclusion, with seventeen of its largest businesses signing up to The Valuable 500.
The Valuable 500 is seeking 500 global CEOs to commit to action on improving inclusivity of disabled people in business.

Delhi govt schools to open resource rooms for kids with special needs

Thu, 10/24/2019 - 11:16 -- geeta.nair

In a first, the government schools in Delhi will soon have “resource rooms” dedicated to providing special education training to children with disabilities (CwD), individually or in a small group. The rooms will be used to provide supplementary education for these children along with regular inclusive classes.

The Directorate of Education (DoE) has asked all the government schools to provide at least one session a day in these resource rooms to children with mild and moderate educational needs and at least two sessions to those having several special needs.
 

Funding cuts take toll on support for visually impaired pupils

Thu, 10/24/2019 - 10:40 -- geeta.nair

Thousands of children and young people with vision impairment (VI) are being failed because of a shortage of funds for specialist education services, research by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has found.

Less than half (44%) of councils in England have either cut or frozen funding for educational support for VI children, putting specialist provision under significant pressure, according to the RNIB report.
 

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