Support Arabic in Google TTS

A deep message from Arab blind to Google

As we announced before, we released a campaign under hashtag called “#SupportArabicInGoogleTTS” to send a message from blind community to Google company and the developers of Google Text to Speech app on Android operating system, to support Arabic voices/language and this built-in TTS to improve the accessibility services for blind and visually impaired of Arabs! …

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Support Arabic in Google TTS

A campaign to support Arabic language in Google TTS on Android OS

In the Arab world, we have about 8 million blind people, and in the whole world about 39 million [based on WHO]. Blind/Visually impaired using text-to-speech engines to speak each letter, word, and message on their devices with many supported languages. In devices that work with Android OS, Google embedded their own TTS without supporting Arabic …

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SwiftBraille is a winner in AlSabah award for informatics 2016

Swift Braille project won with AlSabah award for informatics 2016

Yesterday, The Annual Informatics Award located in Kuwait country announced that in a conference the winners of the Al-Sabah awards for informatics in its round 16th, Swift Braille project represented Palestine in this award with another private company! The subscription In August of this year (2016), the Swift Braille project has been selected with other 6 mobile apps as …

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Why Swift Braille is a good project for students to learn the Braille language

Since the launch of the SwiftBraille project at the beginning of 2016, we started to implement the most important features for the blind and visually impaired, in my opinion, this project still needs a lot of work to let the keyboard as a default keyboard for the blind and visually impaired on their Android devices. Of …

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Text-to-speech engines and pre-stored voices

SwiftBraille keyboard speeches each written letter, character, word, or even the whole text after you closed the keyboard. Based on the installed text-to-speech engine (TTS) in your system, and of course, some Android devices have default ones with some supported voices from different languages. Installed text-to-speech engines To view all installed engines: – Go to your device’s …

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