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

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

405

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.657015

Filename

657015