Project Name: MurText Speech-to-Text Transcription Application
Year: 2025
Objective: We developed this application to meet the need for easy and secure transcription of audio and video files without uploading them to your computer. This step aims to improve accessibility both in private and public spheres. Your audio and video content is converted directly into text on your computer without being uploaded to any server. Offering speech recognition in over 100 languages, it ensures broad accessibility. With eight different interface languages planned to be introduced soon, a user-friendly experience is targeted.
MurText has been developed as a tool that facilitates access to audio-based content for everyone, aiming to enhance accessibility, promote diversity, and support equal participation in technology.
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Project Name: Frequently Asked Questions Guide for Blind Students Starting University
Year: 2025
Objective: This guide provides experience-based answers to the most common questions asked by blind students who are about to start university. It covers a wide range of topics — from navigating campus to exam arrangements, from dormitory life to social activities — with responses prepared by blind individuals who are either current students or graduates.
Coordinated by Körüz Biz Association, the guide is open to everyone and will continue to be updated regularly.
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Project Name: Gostil Ableism Awards
Year: 2024
Objective: The main objective of our project is to build a shared response and consciousness against discriminatory, aggressive, ableist, marginalizing and similar actions and discourse towards people with disabilities. For this purpose, discriminatory words and behaviors published on social media and mainstream media are identified. These recorded words and actions are sometimes disseminated immediately after the incident and at other times at the most opportune moment. In order for the reaction and the shared content to be effective, visuals called "Gostil Identity Card," produced with artificial intelligence support, are used. The unacceptability of discrimination is kept on the agenda through the implementation of this process. The announced candidates are rewarded in three separate categories at the end of the year.
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Project Name: The Guide & FAQ
Year: 2023
Objective: This project is designed for individuals who have acquired blindness/visual impairment and their relatives, as well as for those who aim to enhance their independent living skills. Beyond concerns and perceptions of limitations, individuals with no prior information are provided with knowledge from a blind perspective at various levels. With the content support provided, it is aimed to help individuals overcome the initial challenges more quickly. This project represents the first steps on the path to independent living. It seeks to ease the journey, often walked alone by many who have lost their sight later in life, by guiding them with the experiences of others who have gone before.
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Project Name: Postcard Collection
Year: 2023
Objective: This project features the physical examples of "I don't like it! & I love it!" initiative conducted by our association. A selection of visuals from the project was printed as 30,000 postcards by Mudanya Municipality and distributed on International Day of Persons with Disabilities. We are also striving to reach audiences that we may not encounter in digital spaces through different formats and channels.
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Project Name: Correct Spelling
Year: 2022
Objective: The aim of the project is to provide information about spelling mistakes that occur due to reasons such as use of screen readers at accelerated speeds, pronunciation and emphasis problems in narration, not giving sufficient feedback to visually impaired and blind in their educational lives and inequality of opportunities. Common spelling mistakes are categorized under titles such as "Compound Words," "Separate Words," "Spelling Errors," etc., and shared regularly. Measures are taken to improve access to written language for visually impaired and blind individuals using screen readers, just as in all areas, and the project is continuously updated.
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Project Name: Blind Life Newsletter
Year : 2021
Objective: The project aims to ensure the most effective use of Körüz Biz web content with its expanding range and growing archives. Selections created from the content in the körüz.biz database with the support of artificial intelligence are served through different channels. Formats created regularly, free from repetition, and open to feedback are presented to email groups and social media platforms that blind individuals actively follow. This enables individuals to follow the catalogs separately or in combination according to their preferences. With the renewed infrastructure, volunteers can now more easily and closely track the requests made.
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Project Name: I love it!
Year: 2020
Objective: This Project which is the second step of “I do not like it!”, is a version that contains positive messages. Every behavior that blind individuals dislike also holds the potential to be something they might appreciate. The aim is to strengthen the awareness intended to be created by presenting similar messages with different tones.
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Project Name: I do not like it!
Year: 2019
Objective: It is a project developed to convey to the society the situations that visually impaired individuals (mostly) are not satisfied with. The situations and behaviors added to the catalogs by visually impaired individuals are visualized after being organized by our association. The created images are regularly served through e-mail groups and social media. Thus, if visually impaired people agree with the idea in the content served, they share it on their social media accounts and convey the situation directly to their social circles. In addition, thanks to this publication, the awareness of people who do not have visually impaired relatives is also raised. Furthermore, this publication also aims to raise awareness among individuals who do not have visually impaired relatives.
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Project Name: Shopping Suggestions
Year: 2016
Objective: The initiative compiles tools and equipment suitable for blind usage, products available on supermarket shelves, and similar contents across different categories. Many new products entering the market are not introduced in a way that accommodates the blind. With this project, we aim to address the lack of information and the challenges faced by visually impaired individuals, who often shop online or through an assistant, due to accessibility issues regarding products.
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Project Name: Tips
Year: 2014
Objective: The project facilitates interpersonal experience and enables the development of new blind-friendly living solutions. In every imaginable field, from cooking at home to traveling to distant places; from baby care to applying makeup, all kinds of blind-friendly methods are compiled and served under the "tips" category. In the project where sharing, asking questions, or answering questions is open to everyone, additional comments can be added to published content later. From new technologies to traditional solutions, all accessibility experiences are categorized, developed, and new solution proposals are attempted to be produced.
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Project Name: Descriptions
Year: 2014
Objective: The project responds to description requests by visually impaired individuals. After categorizing the description requests, they are served through various communication channels for people to describe. Content described by association members, project volunteers, or social media users is later sent to email groups and other networks frequently used by visually impaired individuals. Requests for descriptions of cartoons, logos, symbols, etc., are promptly included in the catalog.
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