Turning Words into Voice: CMKL Students Create Audiobook App for the Visually Impaired
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In Thailand, an estimated 204,012 visually impaired individuals face significant barriers to education and entertainment due to the lack of accessible reading materials.While audiobooks offer a potential solution, existing platforms suffer from limited content, poor-quality recordings, and inadequate accessibility features. With this challenge in mind, a group of CMKL students and their advisor, Ajan Justin, launched the SONAR project—an AI-powered mobile application that converts physical books into audiobooks using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology.
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