Akshay V. Nayak and Karthik B.S., two BE graduates, once met a person who was struggling to speak after undergoing tracheostomy. Manjappa, an ex-serviceman from Birur, often scribbled on a slate to convey what he wanted to say. This drove the young graduates to work on an application that could help people with speech and hearing impairment. And the result is Writell, an application that translates writing into speech.
“There are applications that convert typed text into speech. But our application, Writell, is a real-time handwriting-to-speech translation app, which makes communication accessible and inclusive,” said Mr. Nayak, one of the app developers. The application helps convert handwriting in English, Kannada, and eight other Indian languages into speech.
