Abstract
According to the World Health Organization estimation, globally the number of people with some visual impairment is estimated to be 285 million, of whom 39 million are blind. The inability to use features such as sending and reading of email, schedule management, pathfinding or outdoor navigation, and reading SMS is a disadvantage for blind people in many professional and educational situations. Speech or text analysis can help improve support for visually-impaired people. Users can speak a command to perform a task. The spoken command will be interpreted by the Speech Recognition Engine (SRE) and can be converted into text or perform suitable actions. In this paper, an application that allows schedule management, emailing, and SMS reading completely based on voice command is proposed, implemented, and validated. The System hopes to provide blind people to simply speak the desired functionality and be guided thereby the system’s audio instructions. The proposed and designed app is implemented to support three languages which are English, Hindi, and Kannada.
Highlights
The world is moving towards digitization, so are the means of communication
Some of the challenges faced by visually impaired people can be solved by simple, low cost, support software running on android mobile phones
We outline three important features to meet the basic needs of visually impaired users: 1. Converting words that they have spoken into text: In this application, the words that they have spoken are converted into text and are written in PDF format and can be used to send mail to selected id
Summary
Impaired people need help in their daily lives. Some of the challenges faced by visually impaired people can be solved by simple, low cost, support software running on android mobile phones. We outline three important features to meet the basic needs of visually impaired users: 1. 2. Extracting the cash transaction details from the messages in the inbox and converting these text messages into voice messages: It is important to know about Cash transaction details that are available as part of SMS in written form but visually impaired persons cannot read any details which are in written form. Extracting all-cash transaction messages and converting them to voice forms of communication can help visually impaired people to know about cash transaction details. Mailing details is one more challenge for them
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