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Support Arabic in Google TTS

A deep message from Arab blind to Google

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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

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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

Swift Braille News / By
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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support spanish in swiftbraille

Invitation to support Spanish language in Swift Braille user interface

Swift Braille News / By
As we’ve received a lot of requests to support other languages besides Arabic and English, today we are opening the translation process to be from the audience themselves, to be a part of supporting the Spanish language in the user interface of the SwiftBraille app, and add Spanish Braille as input method as well! In the meantime, …

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support french in swiftbraille

Invitation to support the French language in Swift Braille user interface

Swift Braille News / By
As we’ve received a lot of requests to support other languages besides Arabic and English, today we open the translation process to be from the audience themselves, to be a part of supporting the French language in the user interface of the SwiftBraille app, and add French Braille as input method as well! In the …

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Version 1.1 of Swift Braille for the blind is released

Swift Braille News / By
Days ago, a new version number (1.1) has been released with more than +25 features and fixes. Earlier, we released another four beta versions which were being tested by testers from the SwiftBraille development team on Facebook, you can also join the testing program as described in this post. Let’s take a quick and focused look …

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SwiftBraille Arabic blog

The official version of Swift Braille has been released, and the Arabic blog is launched

Swift Braille News / By
Since I released the open beta version of SwiftBraille on 2-15-2016, I’ve been working on the official version of the app, by contacting the blind, visually impaired, and technician users to test the app from different Android versions, different devices, and more! I know that SwiftBraille needs a lot of functions to be implemented and …

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