Image Text to Speech Conversion in the Desired Language by Translating with Raspberry PI

In this project an innovative, efficient and real-time cost beneficial technique that enables user to hear the contents of text images instead of reading through them as been introduced. This device basically can be used by people who do not know English and want it to be translated to their native language. This project is based on a prototype which helps user to hear the contents of the text images in the desired language. It involves extraction of text from the image and converting the text to translated speech in the user desired language. This is done with Raspberry Pi and a camera module by using the concepts of Tesseract OCR [Optical Character Recognition] engine, Google Speech API [Application Program Interface] which is the Text to speech engine and the Microsoft translator. This relieves the travellers as they can use this device to hear the English text in their own desired language. It can also be used by the visually impaired.