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  • VOICE BASED SYSTEM ON DESKTOP FOR BLIND PEOPLE

    Amol Shriram Patil

    Amol Shriram Patil

    @amol-shriram-patil-USgrAA
    Updated: Oct 27, 2024
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    Project Abstract / Summary : T
    oday in the information age computer has become a
    integral part of every body’s life. We use a computer to
    hear songs, read something, accessing information from the
    internet. We use computer everywhere. But the information
    access and computer handling has
    to be done with the
    mouse and keyboard and by reading all the things present
    on the screen and then deciding what to do making it a
    visual process means we need eye sight to handle the
    information on the computer i.e. if we want to read news
    from the inte
    rnet we have to first open a browser and then
    open a website to read news and then follow the links to
    read specific news. The decision making depends upon the
    eye sight and by reading everything that appears on the
    screen. So the computer and information
    age is not for the
    blind. The blind people cannot read the information and
    cannot view the mouse cursor to give command to the
    computer. They cannot access their mail and cannot send a
    mail. Thus the computer becomes a impractical thing for
    the blind peopl
    e and information retrieval a tedious job. We
    are going to develop a information retrieval toolkit for the
    blind and then transform the information into a Braille
    language for the blind people to read it and also keep a
    option of speech to read it. We are
    searching for a few
    things like how are we going to access the internet without
    a browser and how we are going to play the songs and read
    books without a mouse use.
    The systems available now a day

    s uses screen readers
    which read information displayed on
    desktop or it prints
    information on Braille printer. ASR
    (Automatic speech
    recognizer) and TTS
    (text to speech) get used for
    converting speech to text and vice versa. Although these
    technologies are being improved continuously, some major
    problems still pe
    rsist which make them unusable as a way
    of accessing email to a large segment of Blind people.
    These systems have following drawbacks.
    1.
    With the help of screen readers it is difficult for blind
    person to access E
    -
    mail system and computer
    operating easily. B
    ecause it has noisy audio interface.
    2.
    ASR is still
    in development
    stage. In case of noisy
    environment performance of ASR degrade.
    3.
    Both ASR and TTS are highly language dependent.
    So the system developed for one language is not
    applicable to other.
    4.
    Now a
    day’
    s
    mobile is very common word it is known
    to almost all peoples even school goers also use
    mobile. Moreover, tools and technologies above for
    the blind users are unavailable for mobile devices.
    5.
    These systems are not very much useful for small
    scale applicat
    ion for E
    -
    mail.
    6.
    These available systems require use of keyboard
    which is very difficult for blind people to recognize
    and remember characters of keyboard.
    Keeping in view all of these, goal of our project is to
    reduce limitations and problems mentioned abo
    ve. Our
    system allows blind person to his/her voice instead of
    converting speech to text, the system directly sends
    recorded voice message to recipients mail address as an
    attachment. The system also provide option of desktop
    browser which helps to search
    contents in computer,
    Operate multimedia functions of computer such as
    audio, text, News on internet can be read by system. In this
    system we use Microsoft speech SDK which is a software
    development kit for building speech engine and application
    for Micro
    soft window. SDK contain SAPI i.e. you can use
    SDK run time to build application programming interface

    Why did you choose to work on this project topic : Voice mail architecture helps blind people to
    access e
    -
    ma
    il and other multimedia functions of operating
    system (songs, text).Also in mobile application SMS can be
    read by system itself. Now a days the advancement made in
    computer technology opened platforms for visually impaired
    people across the world. It has b
    een observed that nearly
    about 60% of total blind population across the world is
    present in INDIA. In this paper, we describe the voice mail
    architecture used by blind people to access E
    -
    mail and
    multimedia functions of operating system easily and
    efficien
    tly. This architecture will also reduce cognitive load
    taken by blind to remember and type characters using
    keyboard. It also helps handicapped and illiterate people.

    Project Category : CS / IT / Networking
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    Institute/College Name: RCPIT SHIRPUR
    City: SHIRPUR
    State: MAHARASHTRA
    Participating Team From: Final Year
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