Report on One day Workshop on Use of eSpeak Hindi with NVDA
This workshop was organized on April 11, 2015 at All India Confederation of the Blind (AICB) and was attended by 19 participants
AICB conducts one year, Advanced courses for Computing for the Blind and Stenography in Hindi and English. The participants of this workshop were the students of this courses.
The workshop began with introduction to NVDA, as most of the participants were new to it. The important configuration’s of NVDA were explained to the participants, who later installed NVDA on their desk tops and selected their preferred settings.
The participants were than given a text in Hindi for comprehension, and a small quiz was conducted on the understanding of the E-speak synthesizer.
This was followed by introduction to the Hindi inscript Keyboard. The students were also taught how to configure the Hindi Keyboard.
This was followed by typing practice. The students were well versed in Godrej and Remington formats, so they were made to understand the advantages of Inscript typing.
