Abstract
<p class="Abstract">Voisee Communicator is an android type mobile messaging application designed and developed for the thorough communication between two disabled people most especially the hearing-impaired and blind people. With stable and smart Eclipse IDE and the availability of different built-in libraries in java especially the tts.speech.SpeechToText and tts.speech.RecognizerIntent has been taken advantage to create custom voice command functionalities.</p>Creating, replying, sending and forwarding messages are among the primary and fundamental features that this study has to offer. The researchers analyzed the results of the test survey and evaluation form and proved that the application is a user friendly, efficient and accurate in delivering messages to the recipient and has the important features that the users expected.
Highlights
What is Communication? Communication can be defined as the process of transmitting information and common understanding from one person to another (Keyton, 2011)
Communication is an essential feature of humanity
The functions implemented, observed and executed in this study were based on the android normal messaging application for hearing-impaired and person without disabilities
Summary
What is Communication? Communication can be defined as the process of transmitting information and common understanding from one person to another (Keyton, 2011). A current trend in high technology production is to develop adaptive tools for deaf and blind people to assist them with self-learning and personal development, and lead more independent lives (Aher, Musale, Pagar, & Morwal, 2014). Some assistive technologies that are used by the hearing-impaired and blind are listed below: A. Some of the notetakers can be used in face-to-face conversation of the blind and hearing-impaired person. The hearing-impaired person types the text in the keyboard and the blind reads the text through the braille display in the device. The blind can reply through typing in the Braille keyboard the text and read in the screen by the hearing-impaired person
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