Text and Speech Recognition for Visually Impaired People using Google Vision

Abstract

Now-a-days blind people and low vision people are suffering with many problems. Some of the problems they face in their daily activities are reading, identifying the objects and especially they are facing the problem to identify their medicine while they are buying from the medical stores. Blind people and low vision people face the problem while consuming medicines at home for this they depend on other people taking the inappropriate medicines is dangerous for an individual. At present everyone are using the hardware devices such as smart phones in their day to day life. So there should be some application in the smart phones which helps the visually impaired people and old people to detect the text in order to identify the medicine. Our vision is to design an application that helps the visually impaired people to scan the image and convert the detected text in to voice message. Google vision library is used to develop an application on android platform which mainly contain three important functionalities which are Text Recognition, Text Detection and Converting Text To Speech. Scanning the medicine image is done by using an in-built camera and application developed in the smart phone.