1. WELCOME http://senior.ceng.metu.edu.tr/shebab/

2. PROJECT GROUP MEMBERS  Orhan AKSOY  Rıdvan ÇELEBİ  Ulan BAYALİYEV  Mustafa BAL  Mehmet BIÇAK

3. OUTLINE Problem Definition Overview of the Program System Features Our Positives & Negatives Conclusion Simple Demonstration

4. PROBLEM DEFINITION The project is about..... Mostly for Blind people, people who do not know reading and lazy people There exist some kinds of this program So, why we interested with an another one?

5. Problems with other programs No Turkish version Problems with OCR(Optical Character Recognition) To have more user-friendly one

6. WHAT IS THE PROGRAM LİKE? Inputs: Plain texts, scanned documents, images Some processes on the files Output: Someone reads the input for you

7. SYSTEM FEATURES OCR enhancement – PBM converter So all image formats are welcome! – Pre-processing Image Noise Reduction We implemented an algorithm: Mathematical Morphology( by Richard Alan Peters) – NLP( Natural Language Processing) For the next version

8. SYSTEM FEATURES(Cont.) TTS( Text to Speech) enhancement – We used Festival for TTS Intergration of Festival is OK! – Conversion of Turkish words to speech is not complete –unfortunately-

9. SYSTEM FEATURES(Cont.) Graphical user interface – Our GUI design is mostly for blind people – Blind people can use our program more easily now – The name of the buttons can be heard by Using mouse Using “tab” key

10. POSITIVES & NEGATIVES Integration of the main modules( complete) OCR improvement( not bad) TTS improvement( little improvement) We faced with some problems ( OS dependences, integration difficulties...etc) GUI design( complete) Final package( not complete but we are on the final section)

11. CONCLUSION Despite the problems, the product is still an improvement of the existing programs Our product is a good reference for later versions The experience that we have gained is worthy

12. DEMONSTRATION by Mr. Bayaliyev