Digital Talking Book

Abstract

This paper, presents user friendly ways to read books for print disable individuals. "Reading" is the process of looking at a series of written symbols and making meaning from them. However, there, the print disabled who are, the blind, partially sighted, dyslexics, those with visual impairments, physically disabled, and learning-disabled who have difficulty in accessing print media information. Digital talking books are the significant technology for the print disabled community to access printed media information. The Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) technology; it is an open international standard for accessible multimedia developed by libraries serving persons with print disabilities in collaboration with the target users around the globe. The proposed “Talking Book" improves the blind users' ability to read digital daisy books. The main function of the talking book player; computer memory and retrieves bookmarks, automatically unzip downloaded zip files and convert them into readable manner. Additionally, it consists predefined gestures and voice commands to navigate through the pages in the diligence. This paper presents a user interface with an easy-to-distinguish layout, auditory output and gestural input that enables visually impaired people to interact with an Android smartphone device.