Audio books for Class 10, 12 students in Kerala

The audio books for Class 12, with an average duration of 1.5 hours per subject, will be available from February 21, 2022.

The Kerala Education department has released ‘audio books’ for students of Classes 10 and 12.  The audio books for the revision portions for both Classes 10 and 12, whose public examinations are just weeks away, was released by General Education Minister V Sivankutty at a function in Thiruvananthapuram.  

The audio books, which are developed and made available in the First Bell portal -- www.firstbell.kite.kerala.gov.in -- by Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), are designed in such a way that revision of all subjects of Class 10 can be completed within 10 hours, K Anvar Sadath, chief executive officer, KITE, said. 

The audio books for Class 12, with an average duration of 1.5 hours per subject, will be available from February 21, 2022. Sadath said all revision classes in audio books are easily downloadable and shareable in mp3 format. The audio books can also be downloaded through QR Code. 

KITE has issued directions to extend the broadband internet facility provided to schools as part of hi-tech school project for downloading the audio books for the needy students. 

Free reading software for visually impaired 

Earlier, free software-based screen reading software ‘ORCA’ was deployed in all laptops supplied by KITE to schools. Apart from that, all visually challenged teachers were given specialised ICT training by KITE.  

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