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Volume 4 Issue 14 - July 15, 2006
Student develops ‘Braille Face’ for the visually impaired
D.N.I.S. News Network Seventeen-year-old Satvir
Singh, a student from
Being
dependent on writers for exams, Singh found that he was not always lucky to
get a good one. And cross checking what the writer had written was impossible.
This difficulty is what made this young boy develop his own software.
Right after his exam he found
people who were willing to assist him improvise the software. He intends to
release the updated version of the software, which he plans to call Jetsoft Striker. Later, the software will also be made
available in other languages such as Marathi, Kannada and so on. He also has
plans to develop software to serve the needs of disabled people irrespective of
their disabilities.
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