Inspiration
As Malala Yousafzai has said, “One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.” We want to be part of that change, doing our bit. Most people see what is, and never see what can be. In this world, many of the young minds are left behind, no one telling them that there is no such thing as a stupid question. Unable to search for the answers of those, We want to change that. Giving a platform for these beautiful minds that are unable to see the artistry of life, missing out on those fantasies which our childhood has gone by reading. With this platform our aim is to give these young kids a chance to experience the same which you and I have experienced in our childhood. They never need to let go or compromise on the knowledge needed to learn, knowing that there is a SAARTHI (A Companion). We wish to light a beacon of hope for these kids, to let them accomplish and experience the mystifying journey, that is our life.
What it does
I implemented a web portal for the people to facilitate them in education by providing them the tools which will help them learn. A fully Voice Controlled Website with OCR based feature to convert pdf into audio books. This turned out to be very helpful for visually impaired to read books in pdf format. Along with that we also implemented voice synthesizer which basically is a speech-to-text converter to write content without typing making everything voice controllable.
How I built it
I have used HTML, CSS ,Javascript and Django for building the website and their features . Along with them I used Python for building up the Optical Character Recognition which has been used to make the Revoice Feature.
Challenges I ran into
I faced a big challenge to make sure to provide simplicity of usability to the users and faced hardware complexity in making sure the time taken by the feature does not exceed the limits.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
What I learned
I learnt a lot of things like building up a Optical Character recognition model which eventually got us to build a very important feature of our software. We got exposure to many new technologies, along with, I learnt how to deal with building up something together in a given time period. And I also learnt about the problems that our community faces in the education for the disabled.
What's next for Saarthi
Next step for Saarthi is to show visual presentation of speech for the deaf.
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