A navigation tool for blind people

Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 333-337

  Bousbia Salah, Mounir ^a   Fezari, Mohamed ^a  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED; BLIND PEOPLE; NAVIGATION AIDS; NAVIGATION TOOLS; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; VIBRO-TACTILE FEEDBACKS;

WALKING AIDS;

EID: 77955767007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6268-1_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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