BLIND ASSIST : A One Stop Mobile Application for the Visually Impaired

Abstract

Visually impaired people face a lot of challenges in their life and are at a disadvantage in our society especially the ones who live independently and doesn't have a dependent to take care of their needs. Technology is shaping the future and changing how people live. Technology has the potential to help people partially overcome some of these difficulties. Their lives can be made easier by voice-based mobile applications where the users can instruct the application to perform certain functions without actually seeing the application. This paper aims to design and develop a mobile application for visually impaired to help them do the most necessary tasks daily- life demands like voice assistant to read out SMS sent to phone, send mails using a voice assistant, scan any text using device's camera to read (textbook, newspaper, documents, food menu, street address, etc), scan currency note using device's camera and get its denomination, maintain a diary to store important information by dictating to the voice assistant which can then be read out when needed . Our mobile application, blind assist is not just intended to serve visually impaired but also old people who experience problems due to vision.