Tailor-Made Teller: A Hybrid Screen Reader

The Tailor-Made Teller (TMT) serves as a file screen reader, which enables the user to upload a file or text, to have it read aloud along with text highlights; which is relevant for students, people with learning disabilities and the visually impaired. Existing screen readers enable users to experience the Text-to-Speech functionality as an accessibility tool for web pages and on-screen text. However, the currently available systems pertain to specific operating systems and do not support various file formats for a free cost. The Tailor-made teller extracts text from various file programs and leverages the Google Text-to-Speech API to obtain an audio file, which contains the converted speech. The text from the uploaded file gets displayed on the user's screen, where the audio and text highlights run in synchrony. TMT has been tested on Image, PDF, Text and docx files of various sizes and possesses an average accuracy of 98.9%.