THIRD EYE: A System to Help the Visually Impaired Students in Academics

Autor: Salam Vaheetha, V. Vinayakrishnan, S. Nadera Beevi, J. Midhun Chandran
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence ISBN: 9783030494995
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49500-8_10
Popis: Education has always been a strenuous task for visually impaired students. Courtesy to Braille’s system for being a primary technique for blind education since 1824. In this paper, we propose a technology-aided system – named THIRD EYE: A System to Help the Visually Impaired Students in Academics, which functions on voice commands especially designed to help visually impaired students. This system will convert the text in text books into audio files using text-to-speech conversion technique. It also converts the textbooks in English languages to audio in Malayalam language and sets up a digital library to store these converted audio files, which will help the students in their studies. This also reduces human efforts and also proves to be quite handy in case of change in syllabi. This system also helps the students to write their examinations without the help of a scribe, by automatically recording the dictated answer and converting the speech into corresponding text format. A provision to replay the answer is also provided to make corrections if required. This is an android and web-based application, which requires a headset with microphone as an external device. The system proposed will mark a beginning of new hope and an emancipation from the above-said requisites.
Databáze: OpenAIRE