Abstract
Visually impaired people's mobility is limited within their surroundings, preventing them from living independently because of their inability to see. This project aims at providing an efficient solution by providing a virtual assistant to them. This assistant is a gadget which consists of a Bluetooth headset (wearable) and a camera installed in spectacles. It helps them to navigate around places, read texts and detect obstacles through voice commands generated by the gadget. The navigation from user’s current position to their destination is done using GPS (Global Positioning System). The obstacle detection can be done by getting information from surrounding area through mounted ultrasonic sensors. The user can gain information such as expiry date of a product or name of a nearby shop by giving explicit voice commands which is achieved using text to speech conversion.