Infocomm Launches Solution For Visually Impaired

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Mumbai: Under its Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Reliance Infocomm Ltd has launched an easy-to-navigate application - Call History - that helps visually challenged subscribers to access call registry, including missed, dialed and received calls.

`Call History' is an easy-to-navigate application that works on a number-to-speech engine to enable visually challenged callers access call registry information, Reliance Infocomm President (Applications and Solutions Group) Mahesh Prasad told PTI here today.

The development of the applications, which was an expansion of the company's CSR project `Drishti' that works with National Association of Blind (NAB), "touches the lives of disabled section of our populace", he said.

The company soft launched the solution of World Disabled Day two days ago.

Call History works on J2ME-based text-to-speech conversion application on R World, Reliance Infocomm's suite of data applications, he added.

The caller can listen to call information by clicking on the buttons, after the suite has been downloaded from R World, he said.

At present, the facility is available only on MA2 compatible handsets like Samsung Rainbow, Samsung XBS, Samsung RCP, LG 7130 and LG 7230, he said.

Reliance Infocomm has also launched another application Drishti Time where in a caller can dial *337 from any Reliance IndiaMobile to know the time of the day through a recorded message.

Reliance Infocomm has also commissioned a nationwide toll-free infoline 39003100 for eye donations.

"This move is important as out of every four visually challenged people in the world is an Indian. At least 1.5 to two million Indians can benefit through eye donations," Prasad said.

The company is also supporting NAB's other programmes, including Keratoplasty or corneal grafting, while Reliance Infocomm has also tied-up with various ophthalmic hospitals for its Drishti Project, he said.