Finger reader is a device that assists visually impaired users with reading texts or words.
Finger reader for visually impaired.
Many people in the accessibility community were very excited by this prospect.
Who about 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide.
It works by storing a variety of audio files whereby audiobooks are one of them.
39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision severe or moderate visual impairment.
Unlike other common ocr optical character recognition apps that first scan and then process the page the mit device dubbed the finger reader reads text in real time.
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So basically what is a finger reader.
In march 2015 the massachusetts institute of technology mit announced that researchers in its media lab had developed a prototype of a reading device that is worn on the finger.
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While acknowledging this is a serious problem in the world through many kinds of research various solutions are being made to aid the visually impaired people.
Unlike other devices for the visually impaired vi which scan words in chunks before vocalizing them fingerreader picks up words immediately.
Chronic diseases un operated cataract and uncorrected refractive errors are the main causes of visual impairments.
Keeping everything on fingerreader the same the user s finger is likely to disrupt the movable text.
It is predicted that these numbers will be nearly tripled by 2050.
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Victor reader stream is an essential device that allows visually impaired people to listen to audiobooks.
A wearable text reading device for the visually impaired.
Right now the only solution is disabling the touch recognition component of the device.
This device is the most preferred for visually impaired people because of its one off cost can store a variety of audiobooks at a time and it is easy to use.