Visionary

Description

Check out the demo here

This is a prototype of a voice-driven screen reader to increase internet accessibility for blind/vision-impaired internet users. This particular prototype is for the New York Times.

Dependencies

• Use pip3 install [package_name] to install the following:
  • requests
  • selenium
  • bs4
  • SpeechRecognition
  • gTTS
  • playsound
  • keyboard
  • pygame
• This can easily be done using pip install -r requirements.txt
• Install PyAudio
• Install ChromeDriver and move the executable to your $PATH
• Must run with root/admin priviledges to detect input for pausing voice playback

Built With

• Python 3
• Beautiful Soup 4
• Selenium
• Google Text-to-Speech Library

Other Info

• Nicholas Lin
• 4/2/2020