Braille self learning tutor with text to speech technology

Blind Aid: A Self-Learning Braille System is the only Braille system that is capable to enhance the Braille writing and reading skills of a visually impaired individual without the need of a teacher. The designed system works on the text-to-speech technology and is capable to read documents. There are different and also popular devices for visually impaired people such as Speech Assisted Learning (SAL), Book Sense Reader, Eye-Pal Reader series, Electronic Braille pad and etc. There are also some web browsers like Audio-haptic internet browser and associated tools specially designed for visually impaired people to help them in internet surfing. This proposed device is user friendly Braille writing and reading tutor with the capability of reading documents and works on text-to-speech technology which is the assistive technology for visually impaired individuals. Process of this system is, the input can be provided by either typing through the provided Braille keyboard, or inserting text files using designed Braille keyboard. The entered characters are then processed by the computer and then converts the Braille character sets into the standard alphabets of English, numbers, and punctuation marks. The final output appears in the form of text on the computer screen and in the speech format by using the text-to-speech synthesis. The designed Braille system is an intelligent system and it also has the capability to read documents so inserted paragraphs or complete text is processed by the system and the speech output is produced. The simulation of the designed Braille system is done on Microsoft Visual Studio software the proposed Braille system has the capability to pause and resume the speech and the volume of the designed Braille system can be adjusted to the desired level. The speech rate can also be changed and it can increase or decrease the speechy rate to the desired level.

References :
http://ijergs.org.managewebsiteportal.com/files/documents/BLIND-79.pdf