Voice Assistance for Visually Impaired People

Visual impairment is one of the big problem in the humankind. Those people need some assistance to perform day to day tasks. This paper describes a device to help those people to read environmental messages, words, letters used in postal letters, daily newspapers, and so on to cope up with the social life. Earlier those people required Braille type of paper to read messages or require assistance. The main aim of this proposal is to overcome the above problem by the utilization of the Raspberry pi & OCR sensor for automatic recognition of the environmental messages and by utilization of TTS, the environmental messages are converted to the speech or audio for better and easy interaction with the society.