Text reader for visually impaired people: Any reader
A. V. M. Manikandan, Shouham Choudhury, Souptik Majumder · 2017 IEEE International Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering (ICPCSI) · 2017
Smartphones have been the most appreciated utility device by humanity as it continues to ease our day to day problems with innovative technological solutions. However, there has been a steady growth in using smartphones substantially to address health issues. Visually impaired often find it difficult to cope up with the modern society in many spheres of life. Even though most of the research labs and a few start-ups have come up with advanced devices to assist the visually impaired people but only a handful are affordable to most of the people due to higher prices and lower availability widely. Thus, to address the problem, this paper provides a cost effective solution to help the visually impaired people in reading out texts easily with full depth analysis of the textual content through an android application - ANY READER. The application notifies the user about the headings, subheadings, and paragraphs in the text through voice notifications. Moreover, the application is optimally designed to run from mid-range to high-end android phones which make it readily usable and accessible to various kinds of users irrespective of their possessed smartphones.