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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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The final report of the questionnaire

General News / By Mohammad AlBanna

At the end of the previous year 2016, we launched a campaign to support Arabic language/voices inside the Google text-to-speech engine. The campaign took a place in the Arab world successfully, we launched a questionnaire with a set of questions to hear from users (blind or sighted people), and the Arabic hashtag was and still …

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

General News / By Mohammad AlBanna

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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