scholarly journals Reading Device for Blind People using Python, OCR and GTTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 049-052
Author(s):  
Supriya Kurlekar ◽  
Onkar A. Deshpande ◽  
Akash V. Kamble ◽  
Aniket A. Omanna ◽  
Dinesh B. Patil
Keyword(s):  
Blind People ◽  
Reading Device

scholarly journals A Development of Multi-Language Interactive Device using Artificial Intelligence Technology for Visual Impairment Person

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (19) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Norharyati Binti Harum ◽  
Nur’aliah Izzati M. S. K ◽  
Nurul Akmar Emran ◽  
Noraswaliza Abdullah ◽  
Nurul Azma Zakaria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Performance Test ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Normal Vision ◽  
Text To Speech ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Reading Device ◽  
Current Product ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Technology ◽  
Audio Output

<p class="0abstract">The issue of lacking reference books in braille in most public building is crucial, especially public places like libraries, museum and others. The visual impairment or blind people is not getting the information like we normal vision do. Therefore, a multi languages reading device for visually impaired is built and designed to overcome the limitation of reference books in public places. Some research regarding current product available is done to develop a better reading device. This reading device is an improvement from previous project which only focuses on single language which is not suitable for public places. This reading device will take a picture of the book using 5MP Pi camera, Google Vision API will extract the text, and Google Translation API will detect the language and translated to desired language based on push buttons input by user. Google Text-to-Speech will convert the text to speech and the device will read out aloud in through audio output like speaker or headphones.   A few testings have been made to test the functionality and accuracy of the reading device. The testings are functionality, performance test and usability test. The reading device passed most of the testing and get a score of 91.7/100 which is an excellent (A) rating<strong>.</strong></p>

Computer–Oriented Technology for Blind Readers

1990 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 210-215
Author(s):  
E. Hjelmquist ◽  
B. Jansson ◽  
G. Torell
Keyword(s):  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Synthetic Speech ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Reading Device ◽  
Visually Handicapped

Twenty-nine visually handicapped subjects participated in a research project in which a daily newspaper was transmitted into their homes and read to them with the help of speech synthesis. With the use of computer and telecommunication techniques, almost the entire newspaper was transmitted; this is an important change in providing news to blind people. Questions of interest in this study included the subjects’ reactions to the reading device and their use of the different reading facilities offered. Reactions were, in general, very favorable. The project demonstrated the importance to the subjects of receiving a newspaper at the same time sighted people received theirs and the chance to choose what to read easily. The intelligibility of the synthetic speech was considered high. Although the subjects read a lot, they mainly used few of the available commands. In areas in which it was possible to compare their reading habits with those of sighted persons, striking similarities were found.

The contribution of technologies to the inclusion of the student whit a visual disability: the "smart stick for blind people"

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Aurelio ◽  
Stefania Cecchi ◽  
Mirca Montanari ◽  
Andrea Primavera
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Teaching ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Visual Disability ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Design And Construction

Taking into consideration the complexity of the new, heterogeneous, and different training needs currently present in the classrooms, the school is called to respond them in an effective and concrete way through inclusive educational approaches centered on the students, none excluded. On this basis, the authors, supporting the importance of technology in innovative teaching, propose the design and construction of an intelligent white stick through an inclusive cooperative methodology. The presented device, presented in this paper, is inspired by an open and collaborative teaching, enhancing a responsible digital education, accepting the training needs of all the students present in the classroom, specifically the blind student, and the recognition of the diversity in view of the reduction of disability.

Petunjuk Waktu Untuk Tuna Netra Dengan Output Suara

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Aan Febriansyah ◽  
Muslim Fathillah ◽  
Nurdin Nurdin
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Storage Unit ◽  
Level Indicator ◽  
Normal People ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Time Information ◽  
Voice Output

Nowaday time indicator as hour and calendar constitutes necessary for thing a lot of person to trip routines. In general, the clock and the calendar can only be seen by normal people. People with special needs, its example is blind will have difficulty in using the clock and the calendar Get bearing with that problem, therefore to help that blind is designed and made by time indicator tool with voice output. Generally, the tool's instructions when using RTC DS1307, is microcontroller ATmega16 and ISD 25 120. Information about hour, minute, date, month, and year obtained from DS1307 RTC is accessed using microcontroller ATmega16, then from the data when the information obtained is matched in the voice storage unit on ISD25120. As a results,will be obtained time information data such as voice. Besides, time setting, alarm, battery level indicator, and charge the battery with the sound as well is the tool is equipped permanently. Finally, this tool can help the blind people to be more independent in making it easier to tell the time in living day-to-day activities.

Touching Blind Bodies: A Critical Inquiry into Pedagogical and Cultural Constructions of Visual Disability in the Nineteenth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Tilley ◽  
Jan Eric Olsén
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Visual Disability ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Cultural Constructions

Changing ideas on the nature of and relationship between the senses in nineteenth-century Europe constructed blindness as a disability in often complex ways. The loss or absence of sight was disabling in this period, given vision’s celebrated status, and visually impaired people faced particular social and educational challenges as well as cultural stereotyping as poor, pitiable and intellectually impaired. However, the experience of blind people also came to challenge received ideas that the visual was the privileged mode of accessing information about the world, and contributed to an increasingly complex understanding of the tactile sense. In this chapter, we consider how changing theories of the senses helped shape competing narratives of identity for visually impaired people in the nineteenth century, opening up new possibilities for the embodied experience of blind people by impressing their sensory ability, rather than lack thereof. We focus on a theme that held particular social and cultural interest in nineteenth-century accounts of blindness: travel and geography.

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