APSM: Aplikasi Pembaca Soal Matematika (Tunanetra) 1.1 Apk

APSM is an application that is made to help reading math problems for blind students.

As we already know, blind students use braille or letter text arising during the exam. Of course by using braille, students with visual impairments are expected to be able to read the exam questions independently. However, the fact is that not all regions provide test questions using Braille, for example in 2016 there were reports from the Mataram, Karanganyar, Jakarta, Makassar and Sidoardjo regions to the Indonesian Teachers Union Federation stating that there were no National Examination questions in the form of braille letters. Retno Listyarti as Secretary General of the Federation of Indonesian Teachers' Unions admitted that making braille was quite expensive because a fee of Rp. 500,000.00 per question.

Blind students actually can still 'understand' the problem of using other senses, namely using the sense of hearing. The use of Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology for reading questions is expected to help blind students understand the contents of the question text through the auditory sense.

The main features in the APSM application are as follows:

Exercise Mode and Exam mode.
     - Exercise mode is used for trial applications or just for regular practice. where the questions will be manually inputted from the application by the related teacher.
     - Exam mode is used to help read math problems during the exam. both for daily exams and school exams. so that it can replace the British script.

The application was tested on SLB A YPTN Mataram students and received a positive response from both students and teachers there.