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सन् २०३० को विकास एजेण्डामा ‘कसैलाई पनि पछाडि नछाडौं’ भन्ने विश्व संकल्प आज विकासका सवै सवालहरुमा उत्तिकै उपयुक्त र सान्दर्भिक हुन पुगेको छ ।

The global agenda for developing information technology for the 2030's makes the resolution “leave no one behind” a criticalimperative.

Hear2Read, is a non-profit initiative, which uses Text to Speech (TTS) software to convert displayed text (on a PC or Smartphone or tablet) into audio. The text can be “read” from web pages, email, TXT file, Word or Excel or Googledoc or an eBook.

Google Playstore reveals that 3,500-4,00 visually impaired (VI) people in India use the Hear2Read app every day.

Have you ever browsed the internet, our most basic need today, while being blindfolded? You would ask, what’s even the use of that?

Hear2Read is an open-source text-to-speech application that aids learning for the visually impaired. The application runs on phones costing as low as Rs 7,000 and tablets as low as Rs 5,000. Presently, there are six apps – one for each language.

This is a special tribute to honour those organisations who have been doing exemplary work in the field of promoting Accessibility and Universal Design and thus ensuring a life of equality and dignity for people with disabilities.

Millions of visually impaired people in India may benefit from free, open-source software for Android devices that converts electronic text written in Indian languages into messages they can hear.

Throughout his career, Suresh Bazaj, an Indian American computer software and networking professional living in the Silicon Valley of California, has had a yearning to help blind children in India.

For the millions upon millions of visually impaired people in India, it can be difficult getting hold of the audiobook they want in the language they need it in.

Three Bengaluru-based volunteers for the blind have lent their voice to a software called Hear2Read that would read out text content on a smartphone screen to the visually challenged in their regional languages.

As a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Suresh Bazaj met people with visual impairments who achieved great success in the industry.

The popular Tamizh novel Washingtonil Thirumanam got a whole new review recently when Sundari Venkatesan and her students heard it at the Independent Living Skills Training Programme for the Blind and Visually Challenged at Mitra Jyothi in Bangalore.