Braille tutor: A gift for the blind

Abstract

Education is the basic right of every human being. There are 37 million blind people in world and India has 15 million people among them. Visually impaired people use Braille language to write and read. Though there are many blind schools, the number of teachers who can effectively teach are very less. Moreover the blind children cannot read or write without the help of teacher. Thus, there is a need to develop a technology which helps these people to learn efficiently without anybody’s help which will make them self-dependent. To meet this need the idea is to develop a product that can teach the blind children the basic alphabets and numbers. Further the product has data connectivity through Bluetooth link so that the teachers can use it to monitor what the students are learning. The result is the complete working device Braille tutor with the speakjet IC output through speaker and Bluetooth connectivity for monitoring each device.