SMART READER GLASS FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel assistive device tailored for individuals with visual impairments. The device features real-time text-to-voice conversion, enabling access to printed materials through OCR and TTS technology. Additionally, it incorporates advanced functionalities such as face recognition, object detection, typed text-to-voice conversion, and fall detection. Through innovative hardware and embedded system frameworks, including Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi camera, our device offers a comprehensive solution to enhance independence and accessibility for individuals with visual impairments.

Keywords: OCR-Optical Character Recognition , gTTS-Google Text-to-Speech, YOLO-You Only Look Once, EAST- Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detection, Open CV-Open Source Computer Vision Library, WHO-World Health Organization.