Open AccessIntelligent Assistive System for Visually Disabled Persons
Author(s) -
Deepak Kumar,
Mr.M. Munindhar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of recent technology and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-3878
DOI - 10.35940/ijrte.d7404.118419
Subject(s) - visually impaired , braille , reading (process) , computer science , obstacle , assistive device , disabled people , human–computer interaction , optical character recognition , assistive technology , raspberry pi , character (mathematics) , multimedia , artificial intelligence , internet privacy , psychology , image (mathematics) , internet of things , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , mathematics , cerebral palsy , psychiatry , political science , law , physical medicine and rehabilitation , operating system , geometry
There is increasin demand for smart widgets which make people more comfortable. Though many research works have done on current existing devices/systems for visually impaired people are not providing facilities them enough. The imperceptible people read Braille scripted books only, so here developing a new device that will assist the visually impaired people and also providing desired language reading facility. This smart assistive device will help visually impaired people gain increased independence and freedom in society. This device has an obstacle detection sensor to intimate the obstacles to the visually impaired person and a camera connected to Raspberry pi to convert image to text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The read data is converted to speech using text to speech synthesizer. This will useful for visually impaired people for surviving in outdoor environment as well as reading books which are in normal script. The read data can be stored in database for further reading and it can be retrieve by giving a command.