Coming soon Launching on the App Store

Read physical Braille
with your phone.

Point the camera at embossed or printed Braille, hear it read aloud, and ask questions about the page. Built accessibility-first.

Soon Download on theApp Store Free · iPhone · VoiceOver ready
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~99% cell accuracy Hybrid YOLO + classical CV VoiceOver & Braille display

Helen

Read Braille aloud, and ask about it.

Scan with CameraLive guidance with audio & haptics
Use a PhotoRecognize from your library
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Try the Sample PageSee recognition in action
Hold steady — capturing…
RECOGNIZED TEXT43 cells · 99% ✓
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Reading aloud…
How it works
Recognition that reads dots,
not guesses.

A lightweight on-device capture loop feeds a dedicated Braille detector. A language model only cleans the result and answers questions — it never reads the dots itself.

Hybrid recognition

A YOLO cell detector plus a classical dot-grid reader, auto-selected per image. ~99% cell accuracy on well-captured real Braille.

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Guidance without sight

Spoken cues, earcons that rise as you align, and Core Haptics direct blind users to frame the page — then capture automatically.

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Read & converse

Hear the page read aloud and ask questions by voice. A readability gate refuses to voice noise instead of guessing.

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Synthetic-trained model

A photometric Braille generator — embossed dots, every angle, lighting, clutter — fine-tunes a YOLO11 detector on 15k labeled images.

Assistive-tech native

Output routes through VoiceOver and refreshable Braille displays; adjustable speech rate; one-tap sighted mode.

Multi-frame capture

A burst of full-resolution photos with per-cell consensus voting cancels noise from a single shaky frame.

~99%
cell accuracy on real Braille
64
dot-pattern classes
15k
synthetic training images
Coming soon

Helen is launching on the App Store.

Free, accessibility-first, and built for blind and low-vision readers. Star the repo to follow along — the iOS release is on the way.