Toward Affordable Multimodal Smart Glasses for Dyslexia Support in Low-Resource Environments

Abstract: Reading is something most people take for granted. But for individuals with dyslexia, even a short paragraph can become a barrier. Dyslexia is a widespread learning disorder that affects reading fluency, decoding, and comprehension. While recent advances in assistive technologies such as augmented reality and AI-driven text processing demonstrate measurable improvements in reading performance, these systems remain financially inaccessible to many users in developing regions. This paper proposes a low-cost, multimodal smart glasses architecture designed specifically for dyslexia support in Vietnam. By integrating optical character recognition, adaptive text rendering, and lightweight auditory feedback, the system aims to bridge the gap between high-performance assistive technologies and real-world affordability. The design emphasizes accessibility, modularity, and contextual adaptability rather than maximal computational performance. [1],[2] Introduction Dyslexia is estimated