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Bhopal Posted On Monday, December 28, 2009 | By Our Staff Reporter
Bhopal, Dec 28:
Nitendra Rajput has awarded National Award, on Best Applied Reaserch/Technological Innovation Aimed at improving the life of persons with disabilities, by President of India Ms Pratibha Patil. He is son of RS Rajput IRSME (Rtd) resident of Alkapuri Bhopal. He has done BE from Govt Engg College Jabalpur and M Tech from IIT Mumbai, working at IBM India Research Lab.
Nitendra has developed disabled friendly technology called `Spoken Web Technology'. The Project has been tested and successfully carried out at National Association for Blind New-Delhi, Blind Relief Association New-Delhi, Byrraju Foundation Andhra Pradesh etc, a very pervasive technology easy to use.
Spoken Web technology is going to introduce dynamic changes in the life of the visually impaired. They will now easily create and access contents on the web just through voice. People with other disabilities like cognitive etc will also be able to use voice sites. Even non-PC literate people can use it.
One aspect of this innovation (VoiGen) has won Manthan Award South Asia-2008. He has also participated in Delhi half Marathon (21.097 kms) in Oct 2007 & 1 Nov 2009 with finish time 02.47.25 and awarded Medal.
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