Authors :
Anjaly Siby, Anisha P Emmanuel, Chikku Lawrance, Jain Mariya Jayan, Prof. Kishore Sebastian
Volume/Issue :
Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 4 - April
Google Scholar :
http://bitly.ws/9nMw
Scribd :
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Abstract :
Visually impaired persons are those who have
lost the ability of vision partially or permanently (blinds).
This leads to difficulties in performing the daily activities
such as reading, socializing, walking etc. Text and speech
are the main communication medium for humans [1]. The
number of visually impaired persons increases day by day
due to different eye diseases like Cataract, Refractive
error, Glaucoma, childhood blindness, age related
macular degeneration, Diabetics etc. Here we set forth a
camera based text reading mechanism that converts the
text present on the paper using an auto focusing camera
into speech which the person can listen to by using a pair
of headphones. The proposed concept involves extracting
text from the image captured using Tesseract Optical
Character Recognition (OCR) and converting the text to
speech. Here, we divide texts to Syllables so as to convert
it to speech, where the sound of each syllable is prerecorded.
Visually impaired persons are those who have
lost the ability of vision partially or permanently (blinds).
This leads to difficulties in performing the daily activities
such as reading, socializing, walking etc. Text and speech
are the main communication medium for humans [1]. The
number of visually impaired persons increases day by day
due to different eye diseases like Cataract, Refractive
error, Glaucoma, childhood blindness, age related
macular degeneration, Diabetics etc. Here we set forth a
camera based text reading mechanism that converts the
text present on the paper using an auto focusing camera
into speech which the person can listen to by using a pair
of headphones. The proposed concept involves extracting
text from the image captured using Tesseract Optical
Character Recognition (OCR) and converting the text to
speech. Here, we divide texts to Syllables so as to convert
it to speech, where the sound of each syllable is prerecorded.
