08-17-2017, 12:35 AM
voice based email for blinds project and base paper
The advancement in computer based accessible systems has opened up many avenues for the visually impaired across a wide majority of the globe. Audio feedback based virtual environment like, the screen readers have helped Blind people to access internet applications immensely. However, a large section of visually impaired people in different countries in particular, the Indian sub-continent could not benefit much from such systems. This was primarily due to the difference in the technology required for Indian languages compared to those corresponding to other popular languages of the world. In this paper, we describe the VoiceMail system architecture that can be used by a Blind person to access e-Mails easily and efficiently. The contribution made by this research has enabled the Blind people to send and receive voice based e-Mail messages in their native language with the help of a computer or a mobile device. Our proposed system GUI has been evaluated against the GUI of a traditional mail server. We found that our proposed architecture performs much better than that of the existing GUIs.
It helps us to convert written English text to audio files and play them. The user can receive, compose and send a mail to another Voice mail system user. A Voice mail system user has an added benefit over other email systems because it provides an option for the user to read his mails aloud that are in their understandable language, reducing his strain.
Thus reliance of visually impaired on other people for their activities related to mail can be reduced. Dictation using speech recognition could potentially serve as an efficient input method for mailing devices for blind.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Outdoor communication is becoming a harder task for blind and visually impaired people in the complex urban world.
Advances in technology are causing the blind to fall behind, sometimes even putting their lives at risk.
Lot of confidential and urgent information are exchanged over e-mails in today s time. This puts the visually impaired people at a certain disadvantage.
EXISTING SYSTEM
Audio feedback based virtual environment like, the screen readers have helped Blind people to access internet applications. Voice recognition systems have been deployed in desktops and smartphones. Making calls, opening apps within phones are some important implications of it.
Voice enabled search (by Google and various others) is also an existing application of speech synthesizing.Asking for directions while driving and hearing the response through speech synthesis illustrates how practical "hands-free" applications can be to mobile users.