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Braille is an important means of written information for visually challenged people. It is a language that is useful for visually challenged persons to write and read by sense the raised Braille dots by using their fingers. This paper describes a novel approach for the design of a Braille writer and a translator, which converts a Braille document into an English text document along with voice feedback. The Braille writer comprises a microcontroller and some passive components. The aim of the paper is to design a product that fulfils the limitations of the existing Braille systems. The proposed algorithm comprises reading data from the glove-based Braille writer, generating the Braille characters and voice feedback for every character generated, and also the Braille-to-English translation. As compared to the existing system, the proposed system has an advantage over the cost and design technology.
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Jayaprakash, M., Kanmani, K., Antony, P.J., Anil, B.V. (2016). Braille Writer cum Translator with Echo—A Novel Approach. In: Shetty, N., Prasad, N., Nalini, N. (eds) Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0287-8_10
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