Portable Device Converting Braille of English and Kannada Language to Speech Output

"Braille is an image of 6 celled dots”. This paper presents a novel method of converting Braille of English and Kannada Language to a speech output and also having a text to speech and a communication to model having speech to text output in English language to have a more economical and a handheld device for a visually impaired people. The Project deals with Image Processing algorithm to be followed along with some hardware implementation which basically deals with a final handheld device that can read or capture the image from the Braille text or image or a print and can obtain the output through speech using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and TTS (Text to Speech) Technique. This application has been developed to support the young visually impaired and also to support them to be more independent and knowledgeable to the new technology in an early age. Optical Braille Recognition and Optical Character recognition are useful for visually impaired people who are unable to read text documents or Braille script but require access to the documents' content.