A Model for Translation of Text from Indian Languages to Bharti Braille Characters
This addresses the lack of accessible educational materials for visually impaired people in India, though it appears incremental as it applies existing methods to a new domain.
The paper tackles the problem of converting text from major Indian languages into Bharti Braille script to aid visually impaired students, achieving near-accurate results with a hybrid rule-based and LSTM-based model.
People who are visually impaired face a lot of difficulties while studying. One of the major causes to this is lack of available text in Bharti Braille script. In this paper, we have suggested a scheme to convert text in major Indian languages into Bharti Braille. The system uses a hybrid approach where at first the text in Indian language is given to a rule based system and in case if there is any ambiguity then it is resolved by applying a LSTM based model. The developed model has also been tested and found to have produced near accurate results.