Optical Character Recognition Based Speech Synthesis System Using LabVIEW

S. K. Singla*¹ and R.K. Yadav²

¹ Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab. *sunilksingla2001@gmail.com

² Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Department Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology Greater Noida, U.P.

Abstract

Knowledge extraction by just listening to sounds is a distinctive property. Speech signal is more effective means of communication than text because blind and visually impaired persons can also respond to sounds. This paper aims to develop a cost effective, and user friendly optical character recognition (OCR) based speech synthesis system. The OCR based speech synthesis system has been developed using Laboratory virtual instruments engineering workbench (LabVIEW) 7.1.

Keywords: Optical character recognition, Speech, Synthesis, Recognition, LabVIEW.

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