Video To Braille Transcription For Visually Impaired People

Abstract

Visual disability is a global issue. The number of visually impaired people is estimated to be around 285 million in the world. Out of which 246 million people have poor vision and 39 million are completely blind. The statistics of visually impaired people. Ninety percent of this population lives in developing countries. The difficulties faced by them in using the latest technologies and how they dealt with these are largely unknown and under-explored, especially in the developing world. Availability of video to Braille transcription anytime, anywhere, provides a potentially life-changing opportunity for the visually challenged to improve their communication capability. We are introducing software for hearing and visually impaired people to transcribe video to printed Braille scripts. It is evident that implementation of such a system for visually handicapped people with a productive method of Real-time speech to Braille transcription, text to speech, text to Braille, video to Braille conversion, work on commands with flexibility will be of great use