Millions of bright students. Books they cannot see.
India has more blind children than any country on earth, and most study in classrooms where the textbook, the blackboard, and the diagram on page 132 are simply out of reach. Screen readers help — but a PDF full of scanned pages, broken Hindi text, and unlabeled figures reads as silence.
Suno Dost turns the textbook itself into a patient, talking teacher. A student simply speaks — “मुझे विद्युत के बारे में सिखाओ”, “read me the chapter on tissues”, “give me an exam on light” — and a warm voice answers, from the book, in seconds.
A real conversation, not a recording
Students talk to Suno Dost the way they would talk to a favourite teacher — interrupt it, ask it to slow down, ask “why?” three times in a row. It reads chapters aloud with voice navigation, runs practice quizzes and full spoken exams, walks a curious mind through how a topic grows from Class 6 to Class 12, and describes the figures and diagrams sighted students take for granted.
Reading mode
Any chapter read aloud in the student's own book's words — say “next”, “back”, or “where am I” to move around, and “continue” to pick up where you left off.
Quiz & exam mode
Spoken practice questions built word-for-word from the textbook, and a full five-question exam with the score — and a kind review of every miss — at the end.
Diagrams, described
Figures are explained through descriptions approved by a human reviewer — a short overview first, and the full picture when the student says “more”.
Maths that speaks
Fractions, roots and equations follow a spoken-math convention designed for listening — in English and, for the first time anywhere, in Hindi.
An AI that would rather say “I don't know” than guess
A sighted student can double-check a wrong answer against the page. A blind student cannot — so for Suno Dost, accuracy is not a feature. It is the foundation everything else stands on.
Every sentence is checked against the textbook before it is spoken. If the answer isn't in the student's book, Suno Dost says so honestly and suggests asking a teacher — it never invents.
Diagram descriptions are reviewed by independent AI fact-checkers from multiple companies, then approved by a human before any student ever hears them.
Corrupted text never reaches a student's ears. Scanned pages that fail our quality gates are rejected and re-processed — because misread text spoken aloud is invisible misinformation.
Every answer names its source out loud — the chapter and section it came from — so students learn to trust, and to verify.
On your phone in one minute — no app store needed
Suno Dost is a modern web app: it installs straight from the browser onto the home screen, with its own icon, full-screen — and it is always the latest version. Nothing to download from a store, nothing to update.
iPhone / iPad
Open sunodost.org/app in Safari → tap the Share button → Add to Home Screen. Voice input on iPhone works in Safari (enable Siri & Dictation in Settings if asked).
Android
Open sunodost.org/app in Chrome → tap the ⋮ menu → Add to Home screen (or tap the Install banner). Works with TalkBack.
Computer
Just open sunodost.org/app in Chrome or Edge and start talking — or type your questions instead.
The free demo gives every visitor a generous number of questions each day. Schools, teachers and families in our pilot get unlimited access — write to us.
Built for students. Looking for partners.
Suno Dost is a self-funded, nonprofit effort. There is nothing to buy, no data sold, no advertisements — just a conviction that a blind student in a government school deserves the same patient, brilliant tutor as anyone else.
We are beginning pilots with schools and teachers of blind students. If you are an educator, an accessibility organisation, a state board, or a parent who wants this for your child — we would love to hear from you.
Teach with us. Test with us. Dream with us.
Write a few lines about your school or your student, and we will get you started.
Write to us