BRAILLE TO TEXT AND SPEECH FOR CECITY PERSONS

P. P. Chitte, Y. A. Pimpalkar, P. B. Nair, S. A. Thombe

Abstract: Visually impaired peoples use braille system for reading and writing. This people are not able to operate computers and other educational software due to this they unable to improve their knowledge. They are comparatively weak than people with clear vision which causes adverse effect on the economic society. One way to improve their knowledge is by introducing a system which can convert braille to word and audio which will improve them to communicate freely with outside world. This system presents the implementation of braille to word and audio converter which is output and word of that particular input. Braille Keypad with different combination of six cells are used an input to system. In this system FPGA kit is used to convert this input to English text and also display it on LCD after decoding English text it converted to audio

Keywords: Braille language, blind people, Braille to English word converter.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0401039