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Braille for Indian Languages and FOSS

A Talk by nirbheek, at Main Conference

Abstract

Bharati Braille—an Indian standard for Indic language transliteration to Braille and free software support for the same.

Main Description

Braille for English is well-known, but few know that there exists a standard for Braille for Indic languages as well. The accessibility of this standard is quite lacking since the only software that can interact with it is proprietary and costs lakhs of rupees. To help rectify this, I collaborated with a friend (Pooja Saxena) to create bharati-braille.pareidolic.in which converts Hindi to Bharati Braille. The talk will discuss the structure and shortcomings of the Bharati Braille standard, the existing software support, and the conversion tool we made.

Speaker

Free Software contributor since 2006, been working on free software professionally since 2012, constantly confused and disappointed with himself. Former Gentoo Linux developer, contributes to GNOME, GStreamer, et cetera. No identity.

nirbheek.in