Iran-Made Smart Glasses Help Blind People for Better Navigation
“This product is a demo and a wearable gadget which is considered as assistant smart glasses to help the users to navigate in complex environments and accurately recognize objects with real-time audio capabilities,” Alireza Yahyayee, one of the researchers of the project, told ANA.
“While this product provides special possibilities for the blind people, including voice descriptions, navigation and object recognition, and improves their daily life, it also provides interactive educational content, virtual laboratory simulations and attractive educational content for students,” he added.
Yahyayee described the glasses as an incomparable tool to help doctors and medical staff during operations, consultations, and diagnoses, and said, “It also creates a field for experts for easy access to information, remote collaboration, and implementation of processes.”
In a relevant development in late 2022, a creative product was also produced by an Iranian company which makes the process of accessing the pages of different websites and reading their texts easier for the blind.
"’Follow’ service (internet assistant for the blind) is a product and among the measures by which the company could join the list of creative companies," said Alireza Qassemi, the executive director of the knowledge-based ‘Poli Be Sooye Farda’ company.
He added that the product automatically detects and identifies the main text of a webpage and removes its unnecessary texts, including the advertisement.
“The product makes it possible to switch between different pages of a website and access the main text of that page with the help of speech recognition and text to speech services and the up and down buttons of smart phones,” Qassemi said.
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