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Social Welfare & Community Development
Assistive Living for Specially abled

BOSS ORCA for Disabled
Orca is a free, open source, flexible, extensible, and powerful assistive technology for people with visual
impairments which default bundled in BOSS OS. Using various combinations of speech synthesis,
Braille, and magnification, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support the AT-SPI
(e.g. the GNOME desktop)

Features;
 Screen reader enables non-visual access to standard applications in the GNOME Desktop by using
speech and braille output
 Magnifier provides automated focus tracking and full-screen magnification to aid low-vision user
 Voice type: Default, Uppercase, Hyperlink, System
 Speech synthesizer: Default, espeak, dummy
 Control rate, pitch, volume, and person

 Verbosity (brief, verbose)
 Braille support
 Keyboard modes - desktop and laptop keyboard layouts
 Key echo, Key bindings, Pronunciation dictionary, Text attributes

Shruti Drishti

"ShrutiDrishti" is an Integrated Text-to-Speech [TTS] & Text-to-Braille [TTB] System for the Visually
Impaired using the Information Extraction and Retrieval techniques.The system enables visually
impaired to browse internet using minimum key combinations.

ShrutiDrishti has an option of presenting the displayed information in a speech mode using a speech
synthesizer or in the Braille format.

The speech mode of information representation provides
descriptive information available on web page, including
links, text etc. It is keyboard event driven and provides
'keyboard only' accessibility using a minimal set of keys. It
also provides a large text window for partially sighted users
and a standard web page browser to enable users to work
together with sighted workers.