  Aim of this research is to transform images of roadside traffic panels to
speech to assist the vehicle driver, which is a new approach in the
state-of-the-art of the advanced driver assistance systems. The designed system
comprises of three modules, where the first module is used to capture and
detect the text area in traffic panels, second module is responsible for
converting the image of the detected text area to editable text and the last
module is responsible for transforming the text to speech. Additionally, during
experiments, we developed a corpus of 250 images of traffic panels for two
Indian languages.
