India: proposal to provide free text-to-sound translation technology for blind</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="India: proposal to provide free text-to-sound translation technology for blind"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="India,proposal,to,provide,free,text-to-sound,translation,technology,for,blind"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">26-11-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>India: proposal to provide free text-to-sound translation technology for blind</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_e45ZLadLROFZ0Dmr6B9N_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Chennai, India (Hindu): The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) has put forth a proposal to the Social Welfare Department regarding giving schools for the visually impaired 30 computers each with Orca, a free and open source software technology designed for persons with visual impairments. There are 25 such schools in the State. […] Orca is a free and an open source software that translates text to sound. Since the source course is open it can be modified to be made available in Tamil too. ELCOT’s proposal was to have computers in schools with this software and Ubuntu (Linux distribution), a computer operating system that supports it. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/22/stories/2007112259420200.htm " target="blank">www.hindu.com/2007/11/22/stories/2007112259420200.htm </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show