Android Softwares
Tutorial to learn Android
Nokia's simbian devices had been of tremendous help to the visually challenged persons which supported talking software like Talks and Mobile Speak. But after the anouncement by Nokia to stop manufacturing simbian phones, it raised a question for the visually challenged persons as they were left with switching to touch phones. It was difficult for the users to switch from regular 3x3 and QWERTY keypad to touch phone because this technology is very different from the earlier phones. To help the users understand Android technology I have recorded a Podcast which can be downloaded from the link given below in 2 parts:
Accessible Editor Talkback
Philosoft
"Accessible Editor" is an editor that was designed especially for blind and visually impaired people that use Android devices with Talkback and speech engine. It is intended to help visual impaired people to type for applications like SMS, emails, notepad and every other application eyes free. Users can also use "Accessible Editor" to save memos and documents locally. It is possible to work with "Accessible Editor" on every Android device, phones and tablets, with both virtual and physical keyboard. The editor was designed to operate in three different ways.
1. Pressing buttons.
2. Working with gestures.
3. Working with accelerate keys on external keyboard.
It is possible to hear the content of a document in three different speech engines depending on the language of the words. All the documents can be saved locally or exported to other applications. You can also import content from other applications to further edit the document. "Accessible Editor" is designed to work with Talkback and speech Engine, so you don't need to learn a new environment. There is a special consideration for enlarging fonts and good contrast. This is demo version for the pro go to the following link. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=il.co.philosoft.editor
Accessible SMS Talkback Lite
Philosoft
Accessible SMS was designed especially for blind and visual impaired people. It has a sharp contrast for visual impaired people and works closely with Talkback. The advantages of the App is that when an SMS message arrives the message is heard by default and a popup is raised with the content of the SMS message, giving the user an easy access to the content and a smooth way to respond to the message. You can configure the App to play the SMS message even when the phone is sleep mode, so you would not miss important SMS Messages. Another advantage of the App is the ability to work with enhanced voice recognition mode. Making the ability to respond to incoming SMS messages without hand intervention. The App is free and it is a standalone App, but it's power comes when working together with Accessible Editor. If the Accessible Editor is install the App enables you to preview every SMS message inside the accessible Editor in preview mode and navigate back and forth with all the extended possibilities that it offers.
Aqua Mail - email app
Kostya Vasilyev
AquaMail is an email app for Internet and Exchange mail, for Android 2.1 and higher. Easy automatic setup for popular email services: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, FastMail, Apple mail services (@me.com / @mac.com), GMX, AOL, and more. Recognizes mail accounts at domains hosted by Google Apps, Yahoo BizMail, and others. Works with many other email services via standard Internet email protocols (IMAP, POP3, SMTP) as well as Microsoft’s EWS (Exchange Web Services) protocol. Microsoft Exchange is supported via IMAP or EWS. EWS includes access to server side contacts (personal and global, with lookup), and accepting meetings that can later be viewed in Outlook and other apps. Push mail for IMAP (instant incoming email delivery) for those servers that support the IDLE extension (Gmail, GMX, AOL… not supported by Yahoo). Plays well with other email apps that you may be using to access your IMAP or EWS mailbox. Uses existing folder structure, can synchronize drafts, sent, and deleted messages. Can save attachments on the memory card. Widgets (message counts, message list). Message auto-fit (like in Gmail) on Android 4.0 and above. Rich text formatting (when writing messages). Integration with Tasker (change settings, trigger mail check). Integration with Light Flow, Enhanced SMS & Caller ID, Cloud Print, Apex Launcher Pro, Nova Launcher / Tesla Unread, Executive Assistant, DashClock Widget. Lots of settings to configure the application just the way *you* would like. Separate settings for WiFi and mobile connections. This is the Lite version, which is limited to two accounts, no identities, and adds a promo signature to all outgoing messages with a link to the program's web site. You can add more than two accounts, use identites, and remove the signature by purchasing the Pro key on Market at any time.
AroundMe
Attorno A Me
AroundMe quickly identifies your position and allows you to choose the nearest Bank, Bar, Gas Station, Hospital, Hotel, Movie Theatre, Restaurant, Supermarket, Theatre and Taxi.
AroundMe shows you a complete list of all the businesses in the category you have tapped on along with the distance from where you are.
AudioLabeller
IAccessible
Use NFC stickers to create audio labels that are spoken any time you touch them with your phone. low vision and blind people can use off the shelf NFC stickers to label things like medicine bottles, physical files, CDs and DVDs, and even clothes.
How it works:
1. You need a phone with NFC capabilities like the google Nexus.
2. Buy standard NFC stickers from amazon that work with android phones, such as Mifare Ultralight or ntag 203. These stickers are very inexpensive and come in all shapes and sizes, for various surfaces and in waterproof versions.
3. Launch the audio labeller app on your phone and touch the phone to a sticker.
4. You will be prompted to record a message for the sticker. You can record a short or long message like the name of the medicine or the tracks on a CD.
5. Now whenever you subsequently launch the app and touch your phone to the sticker, the audio message you recorded will be spoken.
6. Paste the sticker on the surface of the item you wish to label.
7. If you are not satisfied with the audio message or want to change it, simply use the delete label button on the home screen and then touch the NFC tag. This will clear any audio message saved earlier.
Note: An added benefit of deleting a label is that the NFC tag is initialized with special data so you do not even need to launch the app to use audio labels. So long as your phone is unlocked, simply touch the phone to a label that was initialized and the audio labeller app launches automatically. If the phone doesn't have the app, it will be installed from google's play store for you!
@Voice Aloud Reader-Read Aloud
Hyperionics Technology LLC
@Voice Aloud Reader reads aloud the text displayed in Android apps, e.g. web pages, news articles, long emails, TXT, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, OpenOffice document files and more.
IMPORTANT: You need Text-To-Speech engine and voices installed on your device to use this app. If you don't have it yet, pickup from Play Store Acapela, Ivona or SVOX TTS package. You may use more than one if you want.
Features:
* Click "Share" or "Send by Email" button/menu item in any app to send text to @Voice Aloud Reader for aloud reading over speakers or a headset. * If "Share" is not available, copy text in another app and paste it into @Voice for aloud reading.
* Option to instantly read aloud text copied to clipboard.
* Open text, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, OpenOffice documents or HTML files from Android file system for reading aloud.
* Easily add saved Pocket articles to @Voice reading list - in Read List screen, press Menu - Add articles from Pocket
* Save articles opened in @Voice to files for later listening. Construct listening lists of many articles for uninterrupted listening one after the other. Order the list as needed, e.g. more important articles first.
* Dropbox sync! Enable, then build your list on one device, e.g. a tablet, then listen on your phone. Or from your computer, use File/Save As - "HTML only" function in the browser, save to @Voice Dropbox folder, then listen on your phone.
* Easily control speech generator volume, pitch and rate of speech.
* Pause/resume speech as needed with wired or Bluetooth headset buttons, plus click Next/Previous buttons to jump by sentence, long-click the same buttons to switch to the next/previous article on a list.
* Can automatically recognize the language of an article and use appropriate TTS voice, if available, or set your preferred voices manually with "Select language" menu item.
* Options for additional pause between paragraph, start talking as soon as a new article is loaded or wait for a button press, start/stop talking when wired headset plug is inserted/removed. * Optional sleep timer to stop speech after a given timeout.
@Voice Aloud Reader-Read Aloud
Blind-Droid Wallet
Oleg Taystruk
"Blind-Droid Wallet" is designed specially for blind and visually impaired people! It's indispensable for offline paper money recognition. Bring a bill to the camera of your smartphone and its value will be pronounced. Features:
1. Internet connection is not required, completely offline recognition.
2. Voice, sound, and visual alerts.
3. Quick access to some application settings, straight from the main window:
4. The basic application package includes only US dollars and Euros support. Other currencies can be added as separate modules (plug-ins).
5. Constantly expanding geographic coverage. We are happy to add new currencies, improve and update existing ones.
Currency Eyes
To add the othe currencies download the plugins from here.
CamFind - Visual Search Engine
Image Searcher, Inc.
CamFind is the very first successful visual search engine that can photograph, identify, and provide information on any object, at any angle which was already a huge success on iOS with over a million downloads in less than 6 months.
Forget about typing queries into your browser to get information, instead use CamFind to take a picture and learn!
CamFind - Visual Search Engine
Chess
Miroslav Kisly Chess. The game of chess is very popular in the all world. It is played on an international level, at tournaments on-line, as well as in real time. Game trains your logic and strategic skills. The application contains powerful algorithm of game and friendly classic interface. Challenge your strategic skills with this relaxing game. With 10 levels of difficulty and on-line players provide a fun and challenging game for beginners and experts alike. Now you can enjoy the game anywhere you may be, directly from your smart phone.
Chrome Browser - Google
Google Inc. Browse fast on your Android phone and tablet with the Google Chrome browser you love on desktop. Pick up where you left off on your other devices with tab sync, search by voice, and save up to 50% of data usage while browsing.
Darwin Wallet
New Designs Unlimited, LLC Darwin Wallet enables blind and visually impaired users to quickly recognize paper money. It uses the phone's camera to detect currency denominations for: - US dollars - British pounds - Canadian dollars - European Union euros - Australian dollars - Russian rubles - Belarusian rubles - Georgian laris - Ukranian hryvnias Simply hold the bill in front of the phone's camera and the app will speak its value.
DotWalker
Libor Dousek DotWalker is a travel assistant application primarily designed for blind and visually impaired users but it also enables eyes free control for everybody. This application provides navigation tools by handling a set of discrete points, which can be approached in several modes of control. Next, you can use a talking compass. Routes can be created manually, on the move simply by shaking the device, or with the help of Google maps direction service. Point of interest can be enhanced by audio record or linked to other media sources. Special approach mode directs you to the desired point by announcing direction and distance. On the point location can be supplemented by audio street view. Address announcement as an option.
Dropbox
Dropbox, Inc. Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your Android device, and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.
Eloquence Text To Speech
Code Factory ETI-Eloquence Text To Speech (TTS) is an Android ported version of the popular Eloquence Text-To-Speech synthesizer. ETI-Eloquence is a TTS engine that you can use in a wide range of applications such as: - Screen readers and applications for blind people (like Talkback or Mobile Accessibility) - GPS software (like Google Maps) - E-book readers (like Play Books) - Translators (like Google Translate) - And many more!
ES File Explorer File Manager
ES APP Group ES, 300 millions global downloads, file manager trend leader on Android! Rated as one of best resource management tools on Android market. ES File Explorer is a free, full-featured file and application manager. It functions as all of these apps in one: file manager, application manager, task killer, download manager, cloud storage client (compatible with Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Box.net, Sugarsync, Yandex, Amazon S3, and Ubuntu One...), FTP client, and LAN Samba client. It provides access to pictures, music, video, documents, and other files on both your Android devices and your computers.
eSpeak
Cainteoir Technologies The eSpeak engine is a small, lightweight text-to-speech (TTS) program that supports a large number of languages. It has a more robotic sounding voice than other engines due to its small size (see http://espeak.sourceforge.net/samples/raven.ogg for an example of what it sounds like). The trade-off for this somewhat harsher sound is a very responsive and resource-friendly engine with voices which remain intelligible at much higher speeds than other, more human-sounding alternatives.
eSpeak TTS
Eyes-Free Project This is an Android port of the eSpeak text-to-speech engine. It support speaking in over 40 languages.
Firefox Browser for Android
Mozilla Firefox for Android is the free web browser that puts the power of the open web in your hands. The official Mozilla Firefox android browser is fast, easy to use, & customizable, with the latest security and privacy features to help you stay safe on the internet.
Glympse - Share your location
Glympse Glympse is the easiest way to safely share your location with someone in real time. Let others follow your location on a dynamic map. You choose who can see you and for how long.
Go Read
Bookshare Go Read is a FREE accessible e-book reader for people with print disabilities. Go Read is based on the open source FBReader project. This initial version of Go Read allows readers to: - Read on-the-go with a variety of Android tablets and phones (Android 2.2 Froyo or above) - Access and download books directly from Bookshare – the world’s largest accessible online library for people with print disabilities - Read with voiced navigation and text-to-speech - Read books in DAISY 3 text and EPUB 2 formats Go Read is optimized for visually impaired readers, and usable by anyone. To get Bookshare content, readers must have a qualifying print disability and have an active membership. Go Read supports both individual and organizational Bookshare memberships, such as schools.
Google Drive
Google Inc. Get started with Google Drive for free and have all your files within reach from any smartphone, tablet, or computer. All your files in Drive – like your videos, photos, and documents – are backed up safely so you can’t lose them. Easily invite others to view, edit, or leave comments on any of your files or folders.
Google Goggles
Google Inc. Search by taking a picture: point your mobile phone camera at a painting, a famous landmark, a barcode or QR code, a product, or a popular image. If Goggles finds it in its database, it will provide you with useful information. Goggles can read text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish, and translate it into other languages.
Google Talkback
Google Inc. TalkBack is an Accessibility Service that helps blind and vision-impaired users interact with their devices. Talkback adds spoken, audible, and vibration feedback to your device. It is a system application that was pre-installed on most devices and is updated when the accessibility service is improved. For help with Talkback, see: https://support.google.com/talkback/
Google Text-to-Speech
Google Inc. Google Text-to-speech powers applications to read the text on your screen aloud. For example, it can be used by: • Google Play Books to “Read Aloud” your favourite book • Google Translate to speak translations aloud so that you can hear the pronunciation of a word • TalkBack and accessibility applications for spoken feedback across your device • ... and many other applications in Play Store
Google Translate
Google Inc. Break through language barriers with Google Translate. • Translate between 80 languages • Converse naturally and let Google translate • Speak, type, write, or take a picture to translate • Translate offline while traveling. No internet connection needed. • Save your translations and access from any device (Camera input and offline translation are available for Android 2.3 and above)
Hangouts
Google Inc. Google+ Hangouts is a messaging app that lets you send and receive messages, photos and videos, and even start free video calls one-on-one or with a group!
IDEAL Accessible App Installer
IDEAL Group, Inc. Android Development Team Please see the instructions below. IDEAL Accessibility Installer is an application designed to make it easy to install IDEAL Group applications that are accessible, useful, educational, and entertaining for everyone... including individuals with print disabilities. IDEAL Accessibility Installer was conceived of, developed, and is supported by IDEAL Group, Inc. and Apps4Android, Inc.
IDEAL Accessible App Installer
IDEAL Ask Eindroid II
IDEAL Group, Inc. Android Development Team IDEAL Ask Eindroid II is the next generation Ask Eindroid application, first released on December 27, 2009 by Apps4Android, Inc. http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/com.ideal.eindroid/Ask-Eindroid IDEAL Ask Eindroid II is a speech-driven application, based on Evi knowledge base technology, which enables users to access information about almost anything by simply asking questions in a completely natural way.
IDEAL MP3 & Audio eBook Player
IDEAL Group, Inc. Android Development Team Introduction ---------------- IDEAL MP3 & Audio eBook Player is an advanced, fully-accessible MP3 music and recorded eBook player for Android devices. It can also serve to organize and replay classroom recordings through the use of ASR - Free MP3 Sound Recorder.
IDEAL MP3 & Audio eBook Player
Just Speak
Eyes-Free Project JustSpeak (Beta) is an experimental Accessibility Service (English only for now) that can launch applications and activate on-screen controls via spoken commands. This service is most beneficial to motion-impaired users, but we welcome end-user feedback from all user groups, including TalkBack users. Once installed, JustSpeak can be turned on in Settings > Accessibility.
K-9 Mail
K-9 Dog Walkers K-9 Mail is an open-source e-mail client with search, IMAP push email, multi-folder sync, flagging, filing, signatures, bcc-self, PGP, mail on SD & more! K-9 supports IMAP, POP3 and Exchange 2003/2007 (with WebDAV).
Maps
Google Inc. The Google Maps app for Android phones and tablets makes navigating your world faster and easier. Find the best spots in town and the information you need to get there.
My App List
ProjectsException With 'My App List' you can save installed applications in a list to restore them after flash or install a new ROM. First you create a list of your installed applications. You can select which applications do you want to save. The application create an XML file in your external storage. Next you make a fresh install of your favorite ROM. Finally install 'My App List', load the XML file and install the applications from the list. 'My App List' is not a substitute for backups applications like 'Titanium Backup' or 'My Backup'. 'My App List' only save a XML file with your installed applications and allows you to install the applications one to one. You can share your application list with your friends and your friends can import the list with the device. The formats are text, html and XML. 'My App List' is designed to perform clean installations of all your applications. It has a clear interface based on Holo Theme from ICS.
NDTV News
NDTV Official App Get the latest news and much more from India's most respected television network. The official NDTV Android app brings you stories and videos from the NDTV studios in India. The app offers free Live video & audio of all NDTV channels - NDTV 24x7, India, Profit, Prime & Good Times
Nova Launcher
TeslaCoil Software The highly customizable, performance driven, home screen replacement Accept no substitutes! Nova Launcher is the original and most polished customizable launcher for modern Android Nova Launcher replaces your home screen with one you control and can customize. Change icon themes, colors, layouts, animations and more.
Quickoffice
Google Inc. This free app from Google lets you create and edit Microsoft® Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations on your Android phone and tablet. Sign in with your Google Account to save work in Google Drive, which gives you up to 15GB of free storage and lets you access your files from any mobile device or computer.
Shades
Eyes-Free Project Shades allows you to lower your screen brightness beyond the system minimum. For devices with OLED displays, this can result in significant battery savings. Be careful! If you set the brightness too low, don't tap OK. Simply use the back button to discard your changes. If you do set the brightness too low, press your device's power button rapidly until the default brightness is restored.
Skype - free IM & video calls
Skype Say “hello” to friends and family with an instant message, voice or video call on Skype for free. Join the millions of people using Skype today to stay in touch with the people who matter most. There’s so much you can do, right from the palm of your hand. Features: • Find all your friends and family in an instant - With over 250 million people using Skype, you’re bound to bump into someone you know. • Talk with your fingers - No matter where you are, your friends are always at your fingertips with free instant messaging. • Call your world from Skype - Talk to your heart’s content with free voice and video calls to all your friends and family on Skype. • Low cost calls to mobiles and landlines too - Keep in touch, even if they’re not on Skype, with low cost calls and SMS to mobiles and landlines on the other side of town or the world. • Share your favourite snaps - Got a favourite photo to share? Send it over Skype to friends and family and you won’t have to worry about email size limits or expensive MMS charges. • Chat with anyone, anywhere - Skype’s available on smartphones, tablets, PCs, Macs, and even TVs. Whatever device your friends or family use, Skype just works. Simple. • Video messaging – Record life’s everyday moments and share them with the people who matter most, with free and unlimited video messaging over Skype.
SMS Composer
smsrobot Helps you compose text SMS messages with intuitive user interface. Non threaded SMS app. Enables you to: Save template messages and signatures Send SMS to multiple recipients SMS Forward, Reply, Resend, Share View SMS messages in non threaded Inbox and Sent views Voice recognition
Text Fairy (OCR)
Renard Wellnitz Convert your phone into a mobile text scanner What the Text Fairy can do • perform OCR (optical character recognition) • Edit extracted text • copy extracted text into the clipboard for use in other apps • convert the scanned page into PDF • recognizes printed text from more than 50 languages
The vOICe for Android
Peter Meijer See with your ears! The vOICe for Android maps live camera views to soundscapes, offering augmented reality for the totally blind through sensory substitution and computer vision. Also includes a talking color identifier, talking compass, talking face detector and a talking GPS locator, while CamFind visual search and Google Goggles can be launched from The vOICe for Android by tapping the left or right screen edge. Is it an augmented reality game or a serious tool? It can be both, depending on what you want it to be! The ultimate goal is to provide a form of synthetic vision to the blind, but sighted users can simply have fun playing the game of sight-without-eyesight.
Total Commander - file manager
C. Ghisler Android version of the desktop file manager Total Commander (www.ghisler.com). Main features: - Copy, Move whole subdirs - Drag & Drop (long press on file icon, move icon) - Inplace rename, create directories - Delete (no recycle bin) - Zip and unzip, unrar - Properties dialog, change permissions - Built-in text editor - Search function (also for text) - Select/unselect groups of files - Select by tapping on file icons - Select range: Long tap+release on icon - List of installed Apps (built-in plugin) - FTP and SFTP client (plugin) - WebDAV (Web folders) (plugin) - LAN access (plugin) - Plugins for cloud services: Google Drive, Microsoft Live, Dropbox - Root support for the main functions (optional) - Send files via Bluetooth (OBEX) - Thumbnails for pictures - Two panels side by side, or virtual two panel mode - Bookmarks - Directory history - Media player which can stream directly from LAN, WebDAV and cloud plugins - Configurable button bar for changing directories, internal commands, launching apps, and sending shell commands - Simple help function in English, German, Russian, Ukrainian and Czech - Optimizations for visually impaired, like text for icons - Supported languages of the main program: English, German, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. - Public translation via http://crowdin.net/project/total-commander
Total Commander - file manager
Viber
Viber Media S.à r.l. With Viber, everyone in the world can connect. Freely. More than 200 million Viber users text, call, and send photo and video messages worldwide over Wifi or 3G - for free. Viber Out can be used to make calls to non-Viber mobile and landline numbers at low rates. Viber is available for many smartphones and platforms.
WhatsApp Messenger
WhatsApp Inc. WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messenger available for Android and other smartphones. WhatsApp uses your 3G or WiFi (when available) to message with friends and family. Switch from SMS to WhatsApp to send and receive messages, pictures, audio notes, and video messages. First year FREE!
WiFi FTP (WiFi File Transfer)
Nalic *** Thank You for Over 100,000 Downloads *** WiFi FTP Turns your Adroid Phone into a Wireless FTP Server. You can now copy multiple files, folders, or entire hard drives to your Phone and access this information anywhere. Leave your USB keys behind, your Android Phone can do all that and MORE!
Audioboo
Share your voice with your friends, family or the world. This all-new version of Audioboo comes with a simplified interface, faster uploading, and better compatibility with a wide range of devices up to Android 4.4.
Hare Krishna Physio
Caller Name Talker
App Extractor
Website Extractor
App Extractor
Daisy Reader
Tel Manager
VCard Sender
Wood Side Apps
Web Whatsapp
HinKhoj.Dictionary
Microsoft Office
Basic Docx Reader