Dyslex_Re : The Real-Time Assistance for Dyslexic People
DYSLEX_RE is a real-time reading assistant app for dyslexic people. Dyslexia, also known as reading disorder and it is characterized by trouble with reading ability. Different people are affected to varying degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading at high speed, writing some words, sounding out words in the head, pronouncing words when reading aloud and understanding what one reads. Some cases run in families. OpenDyslexic is a free typeface/font designed to avoid some of the common reading errors caused by dyslexia. The font that includes regular, bold, italic, bold-italic, and monospaced font styles. This application is developed in English language using multisensory approach and it is an appropriate and suitable learning ecosystem for dyslexic children. Previous studies shows that many application that are developed in Malay and Spanish language. And this applications that only recognize some of the alphabetic. But in our application we work with all the alphabetic using OCR. The main objective of the proposed system that uses Google’s mobile vision API & OCR and it provide real-time facility. The detected text is then displayed to the user in OpenDyslexic font. Mobile vision API is regarded as the best real time OCR API for mobile devices. It provides good detection accuracy and real time detection capability. Thou it does not feature real time detection, it has higher accuracy than mobile vision API. The mobile vision API is used for real time OCR and extracting text from small text areas such as sign boards etc. We extend image-to-text retrieval in to video-to-text retrieval. It can be performed by extracting the frames of videos, retrieving the text from the video and displayed it in the OpenDyslexic font. The performance can be improved by using threads in multitasking. The performance degradation is avoided by using multiple threads.
