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 Hello. As a blind person, how do you work with your phone? I am not blind but I am asking because I have idea of a cheap FOSS based mobile phone for users who can't read/write or are blind. The idea came when I saw my grandma can't work with regular phones. She can't read or write thanks to many stupid religious beliefs back in her time. When I told her about my idea, she became so happy. 1/2 3 comments
@farooqkz That sounds great for some users, blind or not, who prefer simplicity. It wouldn’t be my preference since I prefer to interact by typing (QWERTY or Braille), and I only use dictation sparingly. @farooqkz A screen reader, called Voiceover, speaks onscreen items selectively and efficiently. There is a screen reader built into every major operating system. Seniors who lose their vision often need one-on-one support to learn a screen reader, but once they learn, it’s very powerful. There are simpler phones like the Blindshell for folks who would rather not use touchscreens. |
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Now thanks to #Mozilla #CommonVoice we've got so much speech data even in #Persian which is my mother tongue. Let alone #English and other western languages. The idea is utilizing some speech based #MachineLearning techniques so that the user can operate the phone using voice instead of buttons.