International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology, 2022 Vol. 7, Issue 1, ISSN No. 2455-2143, Pages 172-175 Published Online May 2022 in IJEAST (http://www.ijeast.com) 172 REVIEW ON ARA- A VOICE ASSISTANT FOR DISABLED PERSONALITIES Khushboo Sharma 1 , Disha Bahal 2 , Aman Sharma 3 , Ankita Garg 4 , Neeta Verma 1 B.Tech Student 1, 2, 3, 4 , Professor 1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering Inderprastha Engineering College, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, India Abstract: This paper illustrates the implementation of our proposed voice assistant that provides assistance to disabled personalities over the website. ARA-the voice assistant is a software agent that can interpret human speech and respond via synthesized voices. The most popular voice assistants which can all be found on smart phones and dedicated speakers. As voice assistants become more widely used, but have complex functionality and only open when we click the mic option, this will start on voice command, easier for the people who are blind or have cognitive disabilities. ARA will read out the content of the website and then using speech to text and text to speech modules along with selenium, our software can automate any website. The designed voice assistance connects with the intended applications to provide results that the user has demanded. The objective of this paper is to illustrate how voice assistants are used in everyday life with minimal efforts and to explore whether there is potential for making them accessible for people with disabilities. Keywords: artificial intelligence, machine learning, voice assistants, speech recognition, cognitive disabilities I. INTRODUCTION Voice assistants have a very long history that dates back over 100 years, which is surprising since Siri, the first one that we are aware of, was only released ten years ago and now we can see AI at work every day in the form of virtual personal assistants, which are embedded in almost every smartphone today. It is no wonder that voice assistants are gaining popularity at an incredible rate, becoming more relevant to providing great, yet effortless customer service. The basic idea of taking an artificial voice assistant into the picture is that it is a voice robot, which is somewhat different from the natural human voice and reacts according to the command. It is no longer a human who learns to communicate with a machine, but a machine learns to communicate with a human, prospecting his actions, habits, behavior, and trying to become his personalized assistant. Worldwide, 15% of the population has some form of disability, of which 2-4% have significant difficulties with their functioning. The task of using a website can seem trivial to most people, but it can be extremely difficult for people with disabilities. As a result, we wanted to develop a way that would allow different types of people to access the internet in a unique way. II. LITERATURE REVIEW S. No Name Year Author Review 1. Jarvis, Digital Life Assistant’ 2013 Khobragade S. This paper explains how the author's project uses voice as a communication format, which is basically the Speech recognition application.There are two main basic concepts in speech technology: Synthesizer & recognizer. A speech synthesizer takes input and produces an audio stream as output,while speech recognition takes an audio stream as input and turns it into text transcription.