Design of interactive learning media to pronunciation characters and words English for blind children

Abstract

This paper aims the study of designing an English learning system for blind children. Instrument designed is interactive learning media so hopefully blind child will be easy to be interested and active to learn. The processing hardware used is Raspberry Pi (as its main brain). Learning system mode is made of two kinds, namely learning mode (text to speech method) and question mode (speech to text method). The result of this research is a model for learning letters recognition and English pronunciation tool. The design of this tool using Raspberry Pi 3, because the Raspberry Pi 3 is a computer system that is integrated with the supporting components required in voice recognition processing and text to voice conversion. The design of this model does not cost much, because it only uses a mini PC that is Raspberry Pi 3 as the main component. However, in previous research, interactive learning of braille for children using linguistics requires a lot of hardware and requires teachers in its use. the learning media is expected to help the blind child in learning the characters and English words and also expected this instrument can be used for use in the school blind.