Title :
A system of text reading and translation to voice for blind persons
Author :
Leija, L. ; Santiago, S. ; Alvarado, C
Author_Institution :
Seccion Bioelectron., CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
fDate :
31 Oct-3 Nov 1996
Abstract :
The developed system falls into the category of text to speech reading machines and can give to the blind autonomous text reading capacity. The read characters are obtained through an optic lector and a computer program based on pattern recognition by means of an artificial neural network. The system uses a central processing unit from a personal computer containing only a hard disk, a scanner unit, and a sound blaster audio card
Keywords :
audio-visual systems; backpropagation; character recognition; character recognition equipment; handicapped aids; image scanners; neural nets; speech synthesis; artificial neural network; backpropagation; blind persons aid; central processing unit; computer program; hard disk; optic lector; pattern recognition; personal computer; printed characters recognition; read characters; scanner unit; sound blaster audio card; text reading; text to speech reading machine; translation to voice; word recognition; Artificial neural networks; Central Processing Unit; Computer networks; Hard disks; Microcomputers; Optical computing; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Pattern recognition; Speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3811-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1996.657015
