Text to Speech Conversion using Optical character Recognition for Visually Impaired Persons

摘要

Disability of visual reading impacts the life of a person to a great extent. Although there are various devices designed for visual impaired persons, but development of the text reading devices is at the beginning stage. This system for text recognition is more user friendly and easy available also so a system which automatically enables access form text to voice mode is needed. In this paper optical recognition technology (Optical Character Recognition) is used to develop a cost effective user friendly text to speech conversion system using MATLAB. The targeted text using optical character technology is recognized through an optical component and is successfully tested using the developed design. This paper aims to design a system which can be implemented in hardware by which the text can be obtained through image and then speech signal from that text is generated. The development of a text to speech conversion device will be of great help to people with visual impairment.