Novel Methodology for Kannada Braille to Speech Translation using Image Processing on FPGA

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Kannada is another language used by Indians. A set if Indians scientist are researching to develop a Novel methodology for Kannada Braille to speech Translation using Image Processing on FPGA. Their main aim of this research is to convert Braille which is printed on a sheet of paper, to its equivalent Kannada script. The steps of the project work include procurement of RGB image of the Braille character, conversion of RGB image, Extraction of braille character using auto thresholding based on histogram, noise removal, counting of dots and then identification of Braille character based on unique grouping. For the image processing task, a Spartan 3e series of FPGA has used and the output is from both text and speech. The novel algorithm for this purpose has implemented using Verilog HDL language.

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