Image to text to speech: a web-based application using optical character recognition and speech synthesis
Abstract
According to the World Health Organization, 36 million people are completely visually impaired and out of which approximately 1 billion people are affected by a kind of visual impairment. The only major requirement of such affected people is their ability to read. This chapter proposed a model: image to text to speech. It is a web/mobile application that captures the image of text with a mobile camera. The captured images are then converted to text using the optical character recognition framework. The converted text is further converted to speech using ...
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