Abstract
There is a great need to provide educational environments for blind and handicapped people. There are many Islamic websites and applications dedicated to the educational services for the Holy Quran and Its Sciences (Quran Recitations, the interpretations, etc.) on the Internet. Unfortunately, blind and handicapped people could not use these services. These people cannot use the keyboard and the mouse. In addition, the ability to read and write is essential to benefit from these services. In this paper, we present an educational environment that allows these people to take full advantage of the scientific materials. This is done through the interaction with the system using voice commands by speaking directly without the need to write or to use the mouse. Google Speech API is used for the universal speech recognition after a preprocessing and post processing phases to improve the accuracy. For blind people, responses of these commands will be played back through the audio device instead of displaying the text to the screen. The text will be displayed on the screen to help other people make use of the system.
Highlights
For Muslims, the best science ever are learning Quran with the help of highly qualified Quran’s reciters
In the other direction [2] built a Quranic Braille System translating Quranic verses to Braille symbols, by using Visual basic program. This system helps blind people to read Quran with the special vibration related to Quran. [3] proposed a portable electronic Braille which can be connected to a computer and helps in teaching the visually impaired to learn and read Al-Quran
8) We have carried several experimentations of the post processing phase with 14 different approximate string matching algorithms, which are as follows: a) SmithWaterman b) SmithWatermanGotoh c) SmithWatermanGotohWindowedAffine d) QGramsDistance e) NeedlemanWunch f) MongeElkan g) Levenstein h) JaroWinkler i) JaccardSimilarity j) EuclideanDistance k) DiceSimilarity l) CosineSimilarity m) BlockDistance n) ChapmanLengthDeviation 9) After applying each algorithm to recognize many texts recognized by “google speech API” to the names of the names of Recitations and several categories of related and un related phrases, we found that the best algorithm that can be used to improve the accuracy for the phrasal string is “Levenstein”
Summary
For Muslims, the best science ever are learning Quran (memorization, recitation, narration, interpretation, etc.) with the help of highly qualified Quran’s reciters (those learned recitation in a linked sequence of persons attached to the prophet Mohamed peace be upon him). The Prophet PBUH, in Al-saheehayn (the two authentic Books) from Osman Ibn Affan may Allah be pleased with him the Messenger of Allah PBUH said: “The best among you is who learned and taught the Quran” From this logic, great efforts in recent years were conducted to adapt information technology and computer applications, the use of websites and Web pages in religious sciences and provided to all categories of Muslims worldwide in all forms, whether printed, audio or video to benefit all classes of Muslim society. In this Paper, we present a system that we have developed that allows these categories of people in addition to the normal people to take full advantage of the available scientific materials, such as: the Quran Recitations, the interpretations, the scientific materials (Mutoon), etc This is done through the interaction with the system using voice commands by speaking directly without the need to write or to use the mouse or the keyboard.
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