Braille Writer cum Translator with Echo—A Novel Approach

Braille is an important means of written information for visually challenged people. It is a language that is useful for visually challenged persons to write and read by sense the raised Braille dots by using their fingers. This paper describes a novel approach for the design of a Braille writer and a translator, which converts a Braille document into an English text document along with voice feedback. The Braille writer comprises a microcontroller and some passive components. The aim of the paper is to design a product that fulfils the limitations of the existing Braille systems. The proposed algorithm comprises reading data from the glove-based Braille writer, generating the Braille characters and voice feedback for every character generated, and also the Braille-to-English translation. As compared to the existing system, the proposed system has an advantage over the cost and design technology.

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