IJSTE - International Journal of Science Technology & Engineering | Volume 4 | Issue 12 | June 2018 ISSN (online): 2349-784X All rights reserved by www.ijste.org 166 Voice Based Email Application for Visually Impaired Milan Badigar Nikita Dias UG Student UG Student Department of Information Technology Department of Information Technology Goa College of Engineering Goa College of Engineering Jemima Dias Mario Pinto UG Student Assistant Professor Department of Information Technology Department of Information Technology Goa College of Engineering Goa College of Engineering Abstract Email is considered as one of the most pervasive form of communication. However, all these technologies can be of no use to the people who are visually impaired as all activities that can be performed on the computer are based on visual perception. With the advent of technologies in mobile phones, many technological solutions have been implemented for visually impaired so that they can utilize them, and get benefited by them. Considering it as a key idea application will be built that will help blind people to send and read emails as ordinary people do. Speech has not been used much in the field of electronics and computers due to the complexity and variety of speech signals and sounds. However, with modern processes, algorithms, and methods, the processing of speech signals easily and recognize the text. The application will not let the user to make the use of keyboard instead will work on text to speech and vice versa to facilitate sending, reading, forwarding and replying to emails using an android smart phone. The app will be developed this on android platform. Our speech-to-text module directly acquires and converts speech to text. Speech recognition is done via the Internet, connecting to Googles server. Keywords: Speech Recognition, Email, Visually Impaired, User Friendly, Voice, Text To Speech ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I. INTRODUCTION Proposed Work Problem Definition The key opinion kept into consideration while developing the proposed system was accessibility. Such applications will be used efficiently by anyone whether he is able or disable. Unlike existing systems which focuses more on Graphical User Interface (GUI) friendliness of normal user, our system covers expectations of both normal as well as visually impaired group. II. INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT The most common mail services that are available today are of no use to visually impaired people. This is because these systems do not provide any audio feedback. As they cannot visualize what is present on the screen, it becomes very difficult for them to perform required operations [1]. Mobile phones have become an integral part of our everyday life, causing higher demands for content that can be used on them. Smart phones offer customer enhanced methods to interact with their phones but the most natural way of interaction remains speech. Market for smart mobile phones provides a number of applications with speech recognition implementation. Google’s Voice Actions and recently iphone’s Siri are applications that enabl e control of a mobile phone using voice, such as sending texts and email, listening to music, browsing the web, and completing common tasks. There is also an issue of availability, Voice Actions are available on all Android devices above Android 2.2, but Siri is available only for owners of the iPhone 4S. The Siri’s advantage is that it can act on a wide variety of phrases and requests and can understand and learn fro m natural language, whereas Google’s Voice Actions can be operated only by using very speci fic voice commands. The main goal of this project application is to allow user to input spoken information and send voice message as desired text message. Though there are several screen readers offered then also these individuals face some minor difficulties. Screen readers speak out whatever content is there on the screen and to perform the particular actions the person will have to use keyboard shortcuts because mouse location cannot be detected by the screen readers[2][3]. In this case using a speech recogniser, the user is able to manipulate text message fast and easy without using keyboard, reducing spent time and effort.