Voice based Email Application for Visually Impaired

Author(s):

Jemima Dias , Goa College of Engineering; Milan Badigar, Goa College of Engineering; Nikita Dias, Goa College of Engineering; Mario Pinto, Goa College of Engineering

Keywords:

Speech Recognition, Email, Visually Impaired, User Friendly, Voice, Text To Speech

Abstract:

Email is considered as one of the most pervasive form of communication. However, all these technologies can be of no use to the people who are visually impaired as all activities that can be performed on the computer are based on visual perception. With the advent of technologies in mobile phones, many technological solutions have been implemented for visually impaired so that they can utilize them, and get benefited by them. Considering it as a key idea application will be built that will help blind people to send and read emails as ordinary people do. Speech has not been used much in the field of electronics and computers due to the complexity and variety of speech signals and sounds. However, with modern processes, algorithms, and methods, the processing of speech signals easily and recognize the text. The application will not let the user to make the use of keyboard instead will work on text to speech and vice versa to facilitate sending, reading, forwarding and replying to emails using an android smart phone. The app will be developed this on android platform. Our speech-to-text module directly acquires and converts speech to text. Speech recognition is done via the Internet, connecting to Googles server.

Other Details:

Manuscript Id	:	IJSTEV4I12068
Published in	:	Volume : 4, Issue : 12
Publication Date	:	01/07/2018
Page(s)	:	166-170

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