Divya Nayan 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 device on printed document without knowing the direction of text flow, moving the device 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. Audio files are organized in the machine and can be listened back.
The device is standalone, portable, completely wireless and IoT enabled. It can analyze a multicolumn document to provide seamless reading and is capable of page, text, and word level navigation while reading. Currently the device supports Hindi and English but can be further configured to other Indian and foreign languages.
It is equipped with user inter-faces such as internal speaker, rechargeable battery, USB, headphones, SD card, Wi-Fi and bluetooth
Features
- Wireless & Portable – The device is standalone, portable, completely wireless and IoT enabled.
- Multi-functional – Read printed, e-books, e-news, recording and reading speech.
- Multi-language – Currently supports Hindi and English documents reading in Indian accent.
- Online Processing – Document: Batch Processing Organisation
- Document Storage – Sync Document
Specifications
| Parameters | Reading Machine |
|---|---|
| Scanning Method | Contact |
| Conversion time (A4) | 10-60 Seconds |
| Scanning speed | Manually by the user, 10-15 seconds to scan one A4 size printed page |
| Scan width | Upto 230 mm |
| Document scanning direction | Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Left-Right, Right-Left |
| Storage | Internal memory of 8 GB and 32 GB (~30K pages) external memory for document storage |
| No. of keys | 5(D-Pad)+12(Key-Pad) |
| OCR engine | Open source |
| Supported Languages | Hindi, English, Bengali |
| Speech engine | Nuance vocalizer expressive |
| Connectivity | LAN, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth 4.1 |
| Battery | 2600 mAh rechargeable lithium ion battery, Internal battery/USB chargeable |
| Battery Run Time | Scan and read upto 60 A4 pages |
| Dimensions(WxDxH) | 250 x 50 x 41 mm |
| Weight | 350 g |
| Supported e-document(USB) | MP3/WAV txt/doc/docx/PDF |
Device Demonstration & Trials
- Institute for the Blind, Sector 26, Chandigarh.
- Patiala School for the Blind.
- Navchetna – A Charitable Institute for the Blind, Patiala
- Post Graduate Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh
- Composite Regional Centre(CRC) for Persons with Disabilities, Lucknow
- Convention of Blind Empowerment 2017-18 Organized by Recording Club Whatsapp Group held at Udaipur, Rajasthan
- Department of Community Education and Disability Studies, Punjab University, Chandigarh
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Hariom,
I trying to buy this machine for someone I know. I would like to know further details like its
1. Quality of voice output and range of audibility
2. Anti-theft, anti-virus, firewalls and security
3. Price, guarantee, warranty
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Suggestions:
1. Provide a slot for SIM Card so that a separate phone would not be needed. Build the device in such a way that it can replace Smartphones.
2. Make sure that it is more sturdy because it is for blind people and they are prone to fall.
Thanks and Hariom