Image text to speech conversion in the desired language by translating with Raspberry Pi

The main problem in communication is language bias between the communicators. This device basically can be used by people who do not know English and want it to be translated to their native language. The novelty component of this research work is the speech output which is available in 53 different languages translated from English. This paper is based on a prototype which helps user to hear the contents of the text images in the desired language. It involves extraction of text from the image and converting the text to translated speech in the user desired language. This is done with Raspberry Pi and a camera module by using the concepts of Tesseract OCR [optical character recognition] engine, Google Speech API [application program interface] which is the Text to speech engine and the Microsoft translator. This relieves the travelers as they can use this device to hear the English text in their own desired language. It can also be used by the visually impaired. This device helps users to hear the images being read in their desired language.