Voice Based Speech Recognition for Blind Person

Abstract

Blindness is a biggest challenge in the society. The blind people have their own challenges in identifying the neighbors. The visually challenged people are in the dire need of identifying the new people in their day to day life. Though, there are many devices are existing to help them, there is dire need for a device to help them to identify the neighbor. The android based mechanism is proposed to help the blind people in their day to day life. The aid to help visually challenged person is designed by using discourse concepts and isolating the person face through cluttered background. The smartphone is used as a tool so it reduces the external necessary devices. The discourse correspondence and speech recognition engine were utilized to identify the person. The proposed application is designed in Android platform and tested in the testing environment with 5 blind persons in their day to day activity of their living place. The results are analyzed and discussed with impact of chat bot application.

Keywords–Speech recognition, Automated reading devices, Android App Development for Blind People, Google Voice recognition