ARA- A Voice Assistant for Disabled Personalities

Abstract

This paper illustrates the implementation of our proposed voice assistant that provides assistance to disabled personalities over the website. ARA-the voice assistant is a software agent that can interpret human speech and respond via synthesized voices. The most popular voice assistants are Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google Assistant, which can all be found on smart phones and dedicated speakers. As voice assistants become more widely used, but have complex functionality and only open when we click the mic option, this will start on voice command, easier for the people who are blind or have cognitive disabilities. ARA will read out the content of the website and then using speech to text and text to speech modules along with selenium, our software can automate any website. The designed voice assistance connects with the intended applications to provide results that the user has demanded. The objective of this paper is to illustrate how voice assistants are used in everyday life and to explore whether there is potential for making them accessible for people with disabilities.