Quranic Braille System

This article concerned with the translation of Quranic verses to Braille symbols, by using Visual basic program. The system has the ability to translate the special vibration for the Quran. This study limited for the (Noun + Scoon) vibrations. It builds on an existing translation system that combines a finite state machine with left and right context matching and a set of translation rules. This allows to translate the Arabic language from text to Braille symbols after detect the vibration for the Quran verses.

Authors:

• Abdallah M. Abualkishik
• Khairuddin Omar

Keywords:

• Braille
• Quran vibration
• Finite State Machine.

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