A PC-based Braille library system for the sightless

Author

Basu, Anupam ; Dutta, P. ; Roy, Sumit ; Banerjee, Soumitro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur, India

Volume

6

Issue

1

fYear

1998

fDate

3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

65

Abstract

This paper presents a novel multiclient braille reading system developed around a single low cost personal computer. The system primarily addresses the needs of the Braille libraries, where different texts are needed to be read by different users simultaneously. Moreover, the system can simultaneously cater to different texts written in different languages. This feature makes it specially suitable for use by multilingual nationalities. The major advantage of this system is its low cost, compared to the other systems available and is specially attractive for the developing or underdeveloped countries. The paper describes the system, first from the user point of view and then presents the hardware and software design details. The system performance has been evaluated by the sightless users and has shown encouraging results

Keywords

handicapped aids; mechanoception; medical computing; microcomputer applications; sensory aids; vision defects; PC-based Braille library system; different languages; different texts; multiclient braille reading system; multilingual nationalities; sightless; sightless users; single low cost personal computer; underdeveloped countries; Books; Costs; Hardware; Microcomputers; Printing; Production systems; Software design; Software libraries; Speech synthesis; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1063-6528

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/86.662621

Filename

662621