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From YouTube: Tiflolibros - Primera Biblioteca Digital para Ciegos de Habla Hispana

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Tiflolibros es la primera biblioteca digital para ciegos y disminuidos visuales de habla hispana. Hoy cuenta con más de 52.200 libros accesibles en forma gratuita para cerca de 8000 usuarios en 46 países.

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It is a privilege that we take for granted for blind people a synthetic voice like this and internet access can restore the pleasure of reading.

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In buenos aires-, a group of blind friends have created tiflolibros the first digital library for the blind and Spanish-speaking visually impaired.

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A few years ago, in all, anyone can have access to this. So for a visually impaired person. This is a door to the enormous.

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World Pablo Lecuona, one of the founders, remembers the birth of the project in 1998.

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Among us, the books that we have digitized, we make a scientific list where we exchange, and just this week the one list had appeared on the page that the mailing list in Spanish I said.

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And start exchanging books, let's say thinking about how to build a library, and we started like that without a theme: legal and the use of the computer internet how to disconnect by phone the computer from senchufando today.

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Tiflolibros has more than 52,200 books accessible for free to nearly 8,000 users and 350 institutions in 46, countries. I believe.

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That the impact of the impact we,, the other.

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Users, have on ourselves, I believe that accessing reading gives.

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Better opportunities for education, better opportunities for inclusion in general, employment.

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Information access to texts and recreation to a lot of possibilities that perhaps a few years before were not possible. So.

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Tiflolibros has a help desk to offer support to its users.

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And in the technical support area of tus libras.

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Screen help so that they can access the grades and for technical issues that you need by phone help in the neighborhood of our attention and in the library users can access us in.

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December 2016 unesco rewards tiflos nexos for his exceptional contribution to improving the lives of disabled people, thanks to the a application of digital technologies. How a book is digitized.

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The separate pages.

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And what it is doing is taking some photos of both sides, and this photo is the one that was later generated in the program. What it is doing now is the brain is recognizing page by page page, and it is recognizing all the characters that are within those pages.

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What we do is export this reading of pages to a word format. With this text and directly one passes the reader over, it is calculated from the reader. They should not have heard.

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The objectives are for the future,, but.

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Let's say our objectives or the education issue,, the arrival of the territory and the sustainability issue,.

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And what we dream of happening, one day to be able to institutionalize this project and that the education minister can take over this project and the own.

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Human beings, the same I.

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Always had a tendency like social projects and never work, mathematics, never physics, as for nothing, is the love of my life. There is no way that nothing else, I always.

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Imagined that paradise would be some kind of library, Jorge, Luis, Borges.