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aamba / Aamba

An Android App for visually challenged people. The app guides people to walk with voice feedback or vibration feedback.
MIT License
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Create an OCR app that can read braille symbols and convert it to vibration patterns. #20

Open sunn-e opened 4 years ago

sunn-e commented 4 years ago

I got this inspiration after reading this article. https://www.cnet.com/news/vibrating-touch-screen-enables-braille-reading/ It would be great if we could leverage machine learning/deep learning or other AI algorithms to detect the symbols and then convert it to vibration patterns.

Roymprog commented 4 years ago

This is not a "good first issue" IMO

hgayan7 commented 4 years ago

Similar to this https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254051825_Reading_Braille_on_mobile_phones_A_fast_method_with_low_battery_power_consumption

sunn-e commented 4 years ago

Yes, This will be an awesome project to implement. I will look if the authors are willing to collaborate or share their resources for this project. Thanks for the link @hgayan7 , you are awesome.

hgayan7 commented 4 years ago

Most welcome @sunn-e