EasyLexi
Decoding Difficulties for Dyslexics
About
The problem it solves Dyslexia - a learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words, 1 in 10 people suffer from dyslexia. Most of us have heard about Dyslexia, but how many of us have tried to understand the fear, nervousness and confusion that they face on a daily basis, as students, as working professionals, as people ? EasyLexi is a technological solution designed to help dyslexic people overcome this fear, this anxiety, this confusion by providing them a platform to get more comfortable with words and sounds. It is aimed at decoding the difficulty. In this era of technological solutions, our goal is to achieve equity and solve challenges that people encounter on a daily basis. We hope that with EasyLexi, people with dyslexia can become more familiar and comfortable. This is a website to help dyslexic people in their day-to-day activities. It has text to audio conversions and audio to text conversions features developed using SpeechSynthesis API. Along with that it has ’Word of the day’ feature too. The whole site is designed dyslexic-friendly with apt letter spacing and backgrounds. Demo video link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ymAYzSudflvr5lb2vh76al9ItgTA8HZW/view?usp=sharing
How it's made
Challenges we ran into I had to learn many things about dyslexic people like color palette and letter spacing. Initially I planned to implement the features using python but faced some problems with flask, then after a lot of struggle I decided to use SpeechSynthesis API.