Braille to Text/VoiceConverter

Abstract

Communication between people is a very important thing, sighted people use script provided by languages such as English or Arabic to write on papers. However, in case of people who are blind, they use a different type of script known as Braille named after its founder “Louis Braille” which is the system of reading and writing used by people who are blind where they feel raised dots on a Braille page with tips of their fingers;each language can be represented using Braille script, which differs from one language to another. The Braille to Text/Voice Converter (BT/VC) is a system thatdesigned to help sighted people to be able to understand Braille script without any knowledge in Braille language using mobile phones on Android operating systemby converting a Braille image taken by the mobile camera into other scripts. The aim of this project is to develop a system that is able to translate a Braille script into multilingual script and represents the converted script as text or voice to the user using Android application, the system was developed to translate Braille papers into English language.