Printed Book to Audio Book Converter for Visually Impaired

Abstract

Visually impaired people are dependent solely on Braille books & audio recordings provided by NGOs. Owing to many constraints in above two approaches blind people can't have book of their choice. The presented work will provide them an opportunity to have an audio-book of their choice in English or Marathi language of any printed book having English, Marathi or Braille script. Printed text from textbook having English, Marathi or Braille script will be taken as input in the form of an image which will be converted into plain editable text with the help of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This plain text will be then fed to Text to Speech (TTS) converter which will generate the audio output file in English or Marathi language corresponding to the input text image script. Printed book to audio book converter has been successfully implemented and satisfactory results were obtained.