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| DivyaNayan – A Personal Reading Machine for
Visually Impaired | | DivyaNayan is a reading machine for visually impaired or illiterate person
where any printed or digital document can be accessed in the form of speech
output. The device uses a contact line scanner for acquiring the image of a
printed document. User manually scans the document by placing the machine
on printed document without knowing the direction of text flow, over the
document to be read. It uses optical character recognition technique to
convert the image into text and a text to speech converter, further converts
the text into audio. The audio files are organized in the machine and can be
listened back. The device is standalone, portable, completely wireless and IoT
enabled. The device can analyse a multicolumn document to provide
seamless reading and is capable of page, text, and word level navigation while
reading. It has currently support for reading Hindi and English but can be
further configured to other Indian and foreign languages. The device is
equipped with user inter-faces such as internal speaker, rechargeable battery,
USB, headphones, SD card, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to control the machine. | - Stand-alone, portable, completely wireless and IoT enabled
- Currently supports Hindi, English documents reading in Indian accent.
- Configurable for other Indian and foreign languages
- Multifunctional (Read printed text, e-books, e-news)
- Document storage and updates via cloud
- Page orientation detection and correction
- Capable to read Multi-column document
- Online Hindi and English news reading
- Capable of page, text, and word level navigation
- Rechargeable and detachable Lithium ion battery
- Battery run time of up to 3 hours
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- Auto-standby for longer battery runtime
Internal memory of 32 GB for document storage
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