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Abstract : Smart Blind Stick is a device designed to help guide the visually impaired by detecting objects and portray the information to them in the form of speech. This reduces the human effort and gives better understanding of the surrounding. Furthermore it also provides an opportunity for visually impaired people to move from one place to another without being assisted by others. The device can also be used in old age homes where old age people have difficulty in their day to day activities due to decreased vision. With this paper, the aim to aid people in need to “see” the surroundings. Since the field of artificial intelligence is doing great progress now and features like object detection is getting easier and computationally feasible, these features are implemented in the paper. The paper focuses on object detection and classification on pictures which are captured by the device mounted on a stick whose information can then be relayed to the user in means of sound or speech. Keywords- Object detection, YOLO, Tensorflow, eSpeak, Raspberry pi, Blind, Visually impaired.