Samsung on Monday announced two new apps in India: Good Vibes and Relumino. With these new apps, Samsung aims to provide communication tools to the deaf-blind and visually impaired people in the country. We take a look at what these apps are all about. Developed in India, Good Vibes uses Morse code to convert vibrations into text or voice and vice-versa. This way, a deaf-blind person can use a combination of dots and dashes in order to send messages. Messages are then received as text or voice on the caregiver's app. Similarly, text or voice messages sent are received as vibrations in Morse code. The deaf-blind person can interpret these vibrations in morse code. Good Vibes can be downloaded from Samsung Galaxy Store and will soon be made available on Google Play Store.

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"We have partnered with Sense India to take Good Vibes to the deafblind across the country. We have conducted training workshops for educators, deafblind individuals along with their caregivers in Delhi and Bengaluru," Samsung India Vice President Trivikram Thakore told reporters in New Delhi, according to PTI. "Over the last few months of training, the basic functionality of the app was tested and fine-tuned through their feedback. The notifications, text sizing, duration and interval of vibrations were improved upon after these workshops," he explained.

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5,00,000 people in India are deaf-blind

According to estimates, there are about 5,00,000 people in India who are deaf-blind. Good Vibes app has been in development for about two years. The first version of the app allowed communication between two deaf-blind individuals. However, the latest version now will enable them to communicate with their caregivers as well, even when they are not in their nearby. Samsung is working with Sense India to promote Good Vibes. Sense India has been working to provide online education to deaf-blind people in the country. Samsung is now offering its Galaxy A20 smartphones, with the Good Vibes installed, to Sense India that will distribute it to deafblind and their caregivers.

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Samsung employees developed the second app, Relumino. The app was developed as part of the company's C-Lab programme globally. Relumino is a visual aid app for visually impaired people. The app enables them to see images clearer by magnifying and minimising photos, highlighting the image outline, adjusting colour contrast and brightness, and reversing colour.

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Samsung partners with NAB

Samsung has partnered with the National Association for the Blind (NAB), Delhi. Samsung is offering its Gear VR (virtual reality headsets) and Galaxy Note9 smartphones to NAB. NAB will use Relumino in classrooms where students with low vision will use these devices to see better, thus, helping them improve their learning abilities. Samsung cited 2017 WHO data. Samsung said that out of 253 million visually impaired people, an estimated 217 million people have low vision and 14 million were blind. (With PTI inputs)