Voice Assisted Text Reading System For Visually Impaired Persons Using Arduino

In the survey American Foundation for Blind 2014, is observed that there are 6.8 trillion people are visually impaired and they still find difficult to roll their day today life it is important to take necessary measure with the emerging technologies to help them to live the current world irrespective of their impairments. In the motive of supporting the visually impaired, a method is proposed to develop a self-assisted text to speech module in order to make them read and understand the text in an easier way. It is not only applicable for the visually impaired but also to any normal human beings who are willing to read the text as a speech as quickly as possible. A finger mounted camera is used to capture the text image from the printed text and the captured image is analyzed using optical character recognition (OCR). A predefined dataset is loaded in order to match the observed text with the captured image. Once it is matched the text is synthesized for producing speech output. The main advantage of proposed method is that, it reduces the dataset memory required for the comparison since only character recognition is being done.