Text to Speech: Is that a potential solution to the academic pursuit of the visually challenged students?

Hi

Thanks Odiogo!

Thanks David for the information on the "Text to Speech" engines.

As an Ophthalmologist I get to meet several bright but visually challenged students; or, put it this way, I get an opportunity to diagnose their ailment. Their parents some time seek help or information on teaching aids. I have told them about the computers and the softwares that help the visually challenged: by providing a larger image of the text on the computer screen, by creating a sound every time a word is typed by the stroke of a key board.

Last such question was raised by the father of two siblings, a boy and a girl, both suffering from a variant of "heridomacular degeneration".

However, as I said in a previous post, the information regarding these does not trickle down in this country.

Any way, if the work is indeed in progress, on the TSS in India, it may be possible for a student to download the text from may be either CBSE's web site or any other site that may provide the course's contents. If this is pasted on a personal blog (a visually challenged student's personal notebook), it may be possible to hear them!

If someone from "the telecommunication and computer networking group (TeNeT)", IIT Madras, can comment on that possibility?

Manish