Text to Braille Conversion System

Abstract

Braille is a vital means of communication; it is a system for blind persons, one of touch reading and writing in which raised dots are impressions which represent the letters of the alphabet. It is a combination of six impressions that each represent a type of alphabet and it also contains equivalent representation combinations for punctuation marks. Braille is typically read by using the sense of touch, by running fingers across, from the left to the right along each of the lines. Braille is an extremely important tool for blind people to educate themselves and it is a critical component that supports not only educational advancement, but sub consequently also increases employment prospects. It is just like sign language, it is universally accepted but mostly, only the visually impaired people learn braille, unlike sign language which at least the family members of the deaf or hard of hearing individuals learn to be able to communicate with them. The blind should be taught braille to be able to become literate, which is a necessity in today's world. Braille is a much harder language than sign as there exists a lot of combinations of the impressions of the six raised dots that are not easy to memorize. Text to braille Conversion system acts as a means of communication between those who do not know braille and the blind who do understand how to read braille. One would no longer require knowing braille himself to be able to communicate with someone who is visually impaired. He could just simply type in normal text and those texts would get translated to Braille characters in real time.