Mobile app with reading speech-translated OCR images for visually impaired people

Abstract

This research allows to have an overview of the different technologies that can be used to benefit people with visual disabilities. In the association "Sentir con los ojos del corazón" located in Tehuacán, Puebla, México, people with visual disabilities are served who do not have the technological tools available to understand their environment, such as restaurant menus, signs on doors, reading a book and any setting that contains a text, making life difficult in a world where most texts are oriented towards visual people. There are few applications for people with visual disabilities that allow them to improve their lives in the different areas in which they operate. Therefore, it is proposed to design a mobile application that interacts with a virtual assistant to translate the images into text to speech through optical character recognition (OCR), allowing them to function in different educational, work, social environments, among others. This project allows the Inclusion of people with visual disabilities to improve the quality of life using applications for mobile devices and to be self-sufficient in their daily life, later managing to translate in different languages, with different intensities and tone of voice, using different platforms.