pune the centre for development of advanced computing cdac has released new products from its stable on sunday on the occasion of its 27th foundation day the software include tools for the hearing impaired and indian language keyboards for smartphones among others one of the new tools is an onscreen indian language keyboard that can help a smartphone user to type text in their mother tongue mahesh kulkarni associate director and head of the graphics and intelligencebased script technology gist group that developed the software said most of the indian population still does not understand english and hence is not comfortable using cellphones for nonvoice usage this simple and standardised software was developed to cater to a large number of such users cdac is also conducting an exhibition at the university monday is the last day rajat moona director general of cdac said we are conducting such an exhibition for the first time to showcase our technologies the exhibition will enable the people behind the technologies to touch base with the intended users thereby setting up a mechanism for feedback and improvement