APPLICATION FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE

Computer Engineering

Visually impaired people are often unaware of dangers in front of them, even in familiar environments. Furthermore, in unfamiliar environments, such people require guidance to reduce the risk of colliding with obstacles.This is an innovative System for visually impaired people . This system is used to help the visually impaired to have access to the most important features of the phone enhancing the quality of the system making use of different custom layouts and using speech to text.This study proposes a simple smartphone-based guiding system for solving the navigation problems for visually impaired people and achieving obstacle avoidance to enable visually impaired people to travel smoothly from a beginning point to a destination with greater awareness of their surroundings. Although mobile devices include accessibility features available for visually impaired users, the user interface of the majority of the mobile apps is designed for sighted people. It is clear that Design for Usability differs depending if the final user is a sighted user or a visually impaired user. In this study, a computer image recognition system and smartphone application were integrated to form a simple assisted guiding system. When the system begins to operate, the smartphone captures the scene in front of the user and sends the captured images to the backend server to be processed. we built a mobile app for visually impaired people.Optical character recognition has become one of the most successful applications of technology in the field. The Optical Character Recognition is a mobile application. It uses smart mobile phones of android platform. This paper combines the functionality of Optical Character Recognition and speech synthesizer. The objective is to develop user friendly application. This paper explain the possibility of interaction between visually impaired people and a smartphone especially to replace the sense of sight with help of an android based OCR application.OCR process occurs on a server on the internet to be faster and consume fewer hardware resources.Impaired people do not have luxury to read and write. Hence we are making an application which will enable to read and write emails using speech engine. We are also integrating image to speech conversion so they can read sign boards. Machine replication of human functions, like reading, is an ancient dream. However, over the last five decades, machine reading has grown from a dream to reality. Optical character recognition has become one of the most successful applications of technology in the field. The Optical Character Recognition is a mobile application. This paper combines the functionality of Optical Character Recognition and speech synthesizer. The objective is to develop user friendly application.

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