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PiBOT – A Programmable Assistant

Archita Arun*, H. M. Mohamed Abdul Kaiyoom **, Akshay Sreeram B. ***, Rajeev Moghe ****, Nirmala Devi K.*****

*-***,***** Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, K.C.G. College of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India.

**** Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Portland State University, Oregon, United States.

Periodicity:March - May'2021
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jit.10.2.18237

Abstract

Blind people experience many communication difficulties, and they must overcome different barriers. Visual impairment is one of humanity's most important limitations, particularly in this day and age where information is increasingly conveyed through text messages, rather than speech, which is one of the most significant restrictions. We hope that the gadget we have suggested would be of assistance to individuals who are visually impaired. In this voicecontrolled personal assistant, the Raspberry Pi is used in conjunction with other hardware and software specs to perform tasks such as object detection, text-to-speech, and image-to-speech.

Keywords

Raspberry Pi 3B, Google Assistant, Tesseract, OCR, Cloud Vision.

How to Cite this Article?

Arun, A., Kaiyoom, H. M. M. A., Sreeram, B. A., Moghe, R., and Devi, K. N. (2021). PiBOT – A Programmable Assistant. i-manager's Journal on Information Technology, 10(2), 42-51. https://doi.org/10.26634/jit.10.2.18237

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