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5.0 by Kerala Kaumudi


Feb 15, 2023

About Kāzhcha

World’s first bilingual Voice enabled Newsroom for the differently abled.

Reading a newspaper without anyone’s assistance has always been a distant dream for the visually challenged community. Keralakaumudi’s Kāzhcha gives wings to that dream, it lights up a new world of reading and listening to real-time news and articles. Kāzhcha is World’s first bilingual Voice enabled Newsroom in Malayalam and English for the visually challenged and low vision users, engineered by the Keralakaumudi group after working very closely with the vibrant smartphone users among the totally blind and low vision users in Kerala, India. Kāzhcha App was officially launched by the versatile actor Shri Mohanlal.

Keralakaumudi was founded in 1911 by C. V. Kunhiraman and the newspaper's Editor

K. Sukumaran transformed it into a vibrant daily. Keralakaumudi Daily is among the largest circulated Malayalam newspapers in Kerala. Keralakaumudi Online, the Digital Media division was launched in 1997. www.keralakaumudi.com, the flagship Malayalam website is comprehensive and nostalgic, not only to the native users but also to the expatriate Malayalee community around the world.

Kāzhcha Features :-

Audio News: Once you double tap to enter the newsroom, the default Audio News page greets the user. The precisely designed, low vision user-friendly page has more than 300+ category-wise audio news clips every day from the daily newspaper. Each news is played back individually in a Human voice akin to a radio and the ‘share’ option facilitates sharing news on any social-media platform or to a friend. A media player controls the audio playback and helps the user to easily navigate the app.

Live News is a precisely designed bilingual section in Malayalam and English. It displays all the latest happenings around the world, real-time. Broadly categorised in to Latest, Kerala, News 360, Cinema, Lifestyle, Astro and Info, any user can easily switch and read the articles. Each news article can be shared individually as well.

Customisable Settings options include offline reading up to six months, bookmarking articles on the fly, activating calendar to search archives, select audio news grouping by category or by pages, select audio sharing method to social media or messaging apps, activating speed controls, activating share button, sleep mode to pause and resume later and more. An audio user manual to navigate the app is inbuilt for new users.

Kāzhcha Telegram Community: A link opens the Telegram app to the official Kāzhcha virtual feedback forum for the app user to join and voice his/her opinion about the app and share views on the articles.

What's New in the Latest Version 5.0

Last updated on Feb 15, 2023

- User Interface Optimisation
- Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

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