A COMPLETE VOICE OVER CONTROL OF MOBILE IN NATIVE LANGUAGE FOR BLIND

Abstract

Visually impaired individuals are a growing segment of our population. However, social constructs are not always designed with this group of people in mind, making the development of better electronic accessibility tools essential in order to fulfill their daily needs. Technological improvements have given more independence to the visually impaired population. The past few years have witnessed an exponential growth in the computing capabilities and onboard sensing capabilities of mobile phones making them an ideal candidate for building powerful and diverse applications. Many mobile assistive applications have come out in this regard based on voice over i.e where the blind people can hear the voice output for navigating through the menu’s or options in the mobile with the help of tethering and also can give some voice input for some applications like email or SMS. But most of these assistive applications are based on international language that is English or in Indian English. So for a person with visual impairment and who have a language barrier too is difficult to hear and use the mobile with voice over in English. In this paper we propose a solution to break this barrier by controlling the mobile through voice input in telugu and as a response it should produce the voice output also in telugu language.