Vadodara: Prof Prateek Ashwin Shah, a visually-impaired teacher at Sojitra college, so far used to rely on limited literature that was available in Braille language for his PhD studies.
But now, Shah who is pursuing doctoral studies in the Department of Postgraduate Business Studies, has started using a special facility that helps him not only listen to books written in any language but also translate these using the internet — all thanks to Bhaikaka Library of Vallabh Vidyanagar.

The Sardar Patel University (SPU) installed a cusers of this   library. The special facility of a screen scanner – Kibo – has been made available for the disabled students at the  library, the largest facility in the education hub of   Charotar region of Central Gujarat.
“With the help of  this screen scanner, a visually impaired student can listen   to a book written in any language in the same language.  In addition, since this scanner is connected to Google  translate through internet, it is also possible to translate  the book into English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi so that the  student can understand the book written in any language in  his own language,” said Shishir Mandaliya, the main  librarian.
There are limited documents or resources available in   braille and it is too much costly to convert our regular books and convert them into audio form,” said Mandaliya.

Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/vv-nagar-library-shows-vision-for-blind-people/articleshow/84594941.cms