Printed Book to Audio Book Converter for Visually Impaired

Author

Domale, Ajinkya ; Padalkar, Bhimsen ; Parekh, Raj ; Joshi, M.A.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Eng., Pune, India

fYear

2013

fDate

4-6 April 2013

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

120

Abstract

Visually impaired people are dependent solely on Braille books & audio recordings provided by NGOs. Owing to many constraints in above two approaches blind people can´t have book of their choice. The presented work will provide them an opportunity to have an audio-book of their choice in English or Marathi language of any printed book having English, Marathi or Braille script. Printed text from textbook having English, Marathi or Braille script will be taken as input in the form of an image which will be converted into plain editable text with the help of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This plain text will be then fed to Text to Speech (TTS) converter which will generate the audio output file in English or Marathi language corresponding to the input text image script. Printed book to audio book converter has been successfully implemented and satisfactory results were obtained.

Keywords

handicapped aids; optical character recognition; speech synthesis; Braille books; Braille script; English language; Marathi language; OCR; TTS converter; audio book; audio recordings; book converter; optical character recognition; printed book; text image script; text-to-speech converter; visually impaired people; Accuracy; Buildings; Databases; MATLAB; Optical character recognition software; Speech; Audio Book; Blind; Braille; English; Marathi; OCR; Printed Book; TTS; Visually Impaired;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

India Educators' Conference (TIIEC), 2013 Texas Instruments

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TIIEC.2013.27

Filename

6757125