Two students D3 Telecommunication Engineering Polytechnic State Electronics Ltd (PENS) ITS, Debi Praharadika Revelation and Eko Susilo, create a computer with Linux system designed specifically for the blind in the Indonesian language.

“Making Linux operating system for blind people is hard because it requires a struggle must begin from zero to create their own algorithms, and the keyboard is also a special key with Braille letters,” said Debi in Surabaya, on Tuesday.

In outline, he said, the way Linux Tunanetra works is by communicate results when the keyboard to the sound format.

“So, if there is a typewritten script with a Braille keyboard, the sound will be produced according to a script that typed. Handling the same also applies when the computer is turned off would,” he said.

However, he said, was Linux Tunanetra create obstacles is the time to build a sound database consists of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP).

“NLP is a word that cut according to the Indonesian language. We have to record a consonant, and then combine them into their own until a word,” he said.

Therefore, the program that he hopes that he can be public, especially blind people who need it.

“The idea is to make a breakthrough that began when my mother asked that incidental teaching at the School Extraordinary (SLB) Tunagrahita. The mother asked, whether there is a computer for blind people,” he said.

From that her mother question, Debi eventually intend to create Linux programs for the blind, and he invites Eko to materialize through the End Task (FY) them.

“We do not want to commersialize breakthrough, because we choose Linux as an alternative,” said the student who will graduate on October 12-13 that.

Genuine protected Public License (GPL), the work they can be accessed free of charge by the community. “Please, if you want to modify it, driving, and the Linux distribution program,” he said.

He added, the results of “Click” the Internet has actually been some people who find similar products, but the discovery was only in English.

“I take the system user interface, while Eko develop a text to speech in the Indonesian language,” he said.

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