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Follow-Up: Using a Raspberry Pi Computer to Read to the Blind |
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Topic: Follow-Up: Using a Raspberry Pi Computer to Read to the Blind Posted: 26.Jul.2017 at 04:00 |
Back in December 2012, I wrote a blog post about some Autodesk employees using a Raspberry Pi computer to read to the blind. To this day, that blog posts get questions about how they did it. So I decided to write up a follow-up. Here was the idea. With one camera and one speaker, a Raspberry Pi Computer can be used as an assistant to read a book to the blind. Usually the blind have to read Braille by touching their fingers to the page. This traditional approach requires that they obtain a special copy of each desired book instead of a standard one off the shelf. If they have this machine, the camera can take a photograph of a book's page, the application installed in Pi computer can translate the photo to an article, and then the application can read the article aloud through a speaker. This new approach opens up a world of books to the blind that are not available in Braille. Employee, Norman Hu, worked with his peers in Shanghai on completing the project. They created this 4-minute video: Senior Software Engineer, Quill Chen, provided me with the recipe: So here are the ingredients:
We are very proud of what these employes accomplished. When we held our internal contest to see what our employees could do with Raspberry Pies, we had not envisioned such a worthy project. Well done, team (Norman Hu, Quill Chen, Gavin Jiang, Christopher Zhang). Reading aloud is alive in the lab. Go to the original post... |
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