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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF VOICE BASED

EMAIL SYSTEM FOR BLINDS
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page

Certification

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Abstract

Table of content

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Background of study

1.3 Statement of problem

1.4 Objective of study

1.5 Scope of study

1.6 Significant of study

1.7 Limitation of study

1.8 Definition of terms

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CHAPTER TWO: Literature review

2.1 Literature review

CHAPTER THREE: System Analysis Design

3.1 Introduction

3.2 System analysis

3.2.1 Detailed definition of the problem

3.2.3 Feasibility study

3.3 Method of collecting data

3.3.1 Interview

3.3.2 Observation

3.3.3 Review of procedure manual or existing

system/procedure

3.3.4 Evaluation of forms

3.4 Problem of the existing system

3.5 User preparation

3.6 Data preparation

3.6 Objective of the new design

3.8 Design of the new system

3.9 Program structure

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3.9.1 Modularity

3.9.2 Top-down program design

3.9.3 System flowchart

3.9.4 Program flow chart

3.10 File Maintenance module

3.11 main menu specifications

3.11.1 Output specification

3.11.2 Input specification

3.11.3 File/database specifications

CHAPTER FOUR: System Implementation and Design

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Justification of the programming language

4.3 System control

4.4 System requirements

4.4.1 Hardware requirements

4.4.2 Software requirements

4.4.3 People

4.5 Implementation details

4.5.1 Coding
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4.5.2 System testing

4.5.3 Training and re-training of staff

4.5.4 File Conversion

4.5.5 Changeover procedure
4.5.6 User manuals

4.5.7 Maintenance details

CHAPTER Five: Summary, Conclusion and

Recommendation

5.1 Summary

5.2 Conclusion

5.3 Recommendation

Reference
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CHAPTER ONE

1.1 INTRODUCTION

Internet is considered as a major storehouse of information in

today’s world. No single work can be done without the help of

it. It has even become one of the defacto methods used in

communication. And out of all methods available email is one

of the most common forms of communication especially in the

business world. However not all people can use the internet.

This is because in order to access the internet you would need

to know what is written on the screen. If that is not visible it is

of no use. This makes internet a completely useless technology

for the visually impaired and illiterate people. Even the systems

that are available currently like the screen readers TTS and

ASR do not provide full efficiency to the blind people so as to

use the internet. As nearly 285 million people worldwide are

estimated visually impaired it become necessary to make

internet facilities for communication usable for them also.

Therefore we have come up with this project in which we will

be developing a voice based email system which will aid the

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visually impaired people who are naive to computer systems to

use email facilities in a hassle free manner. The users of this

system would not need to have any basic information regarding

keyboard shortcuts or where the keys are located. All functions

are based on simple mouse click operations making it very

easy for any type of user to use this system.

Also the user need not worry about remembering which mouse

click operation he/she needs to perform in order to avail a

given service as the system itself will be prompting them as to

which click will provide them with what operations.

1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Long before electronic signal processing was invented, there

were those who tried to build machines to create human

speech. Some early legends of the existence of "Brazen Heads"

involved Pope Silvester II (d. 1003 AD), Albertus Magnus

(1198–1280), and Roger Bacon (1214–1294). In 1779, the

Danish scientist Christian Kratzenstein, working at the Russian

Academy of Sciences, built models of the human vocal tract

that could produce the five long vowel sounds (in International
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Phonetic Alphabet notation, they are [aː], [eː], [iː], [oː] and

[uː]). This was followed by the bellows-operated "acoustic-

mechanical speech machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen of

Pressburg, Hungary, described in a 1791 paper. This machine

added models of the tongue and lips, enabling it to produce

consonants as well as vowels. According to Charles (1857),

Wheatstone produced a "speaking machine" based on von

Kempelen's design, and in 1857, M. Faber built the "Euphonia".

Wheatstone's design was resurrected in 1923 by Paget.

In the 1930s, Bell Labs developed the vocoder, which

automatically analyzed speech into its fundamental tone and

resonances. From his work on the vocoder, Homer Dudley

developed a keyboard-operated voice synthesizer called The

Voder (Voice Demonstrator), which he exhibited at the 1939

New York World's Fair. The Pattern playback was built by Dr.

Franklin S. Cooper and his colleagues at Haskins Laboratories

in the late 1940s and completed in 1950. There were several

different versions of this hardware device but only one

currently survives. The machine converts pictures of the

acoustic patterns of speech in the form of a spectrogram back

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into sound. Using this device, Allen J (2007) were able to

discover acoustic cues for the perception of phonetic segments

(consonants and vowels).

1.3 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

There are a total number of 4.1 billion email accounts created

until 2014 and there will be estimated 5.2 billion accounts by

end of 2018 this makes emails the most used form of

communication. The most common mail services that we use in

our day to day life cannot be used by visually challenged

people. This is because they do not provide any facility so that

the person in front can hear out the content of the screen. As

they cannot visualize what is already present on screen they

cannot make out where to click in order to perform the

required operations.

For a visually challenged person using a computer for the first

time is not that convenient as it is for a normal user even

though it is user friendly. Although there are many screen

readers available then also these people face some minor

difficulties. Screen readers read out whatever content is there

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on the screen and to perform those actions the person will

have to use keyboard shortcuts as mouse location cannot be

traced by the screen readers. This means two things; one that

the user cannot make use of mouse pointer as it is completely

inconvenient if the pointer location cannot be traced and

second that user should be well versed with the keyboard as to

where each and every key is located.

1.4 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The main objective of this project is to create an IVR-

interactive voice response email system. When using this

system the computer will be prompt the user to perform

specific operations to avail respective services and if the user

needs to access the respective services then he/she needs to

perform that operation. The new system will be designed in

such a way that the user won’t require to use the keyboard

alot.

1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

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The scope of this research work involves creating a system will

be perfectly accessible to all types of users as it is just based

on simple mouse clicks and speech inputs and there is no need

to remember keyboard shortcuts. Also because of IVR facility

those who cannot read need not worry as they can listen to the

prompting done by the system and perform respective actions..

1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The significance of this project work is to serve as a helping

tool for the vision impaired/blind users. Blind users will be able

to use the software by mouse clicks and speech only. The

application will convert speech to text and prompt the user to

take necessary actions.

1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The limitations encounter in this research work includes:

1. Limited time to carryout research on the subject. Not

enough time to gather information for this research work.

2. The epileptic nature of power supply in the country. After

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we have gather the little material – information for this

work, there was shortage of power supply to organize our

work.

3. Another limitation is Finance: doing a research work

definitely needs money. Shortage of funds is one of the

greatest challenges we encountered during this project.

1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS

Electrical Aided: An electronic device that help particular

disable been to achieve a setting goal

IVR: Interactive Voice Response

GPS- Global Position System: Is a radio navigation system.

Phonetic: Relating to the sounds of spoken language

Receiver: Person or thing who receives something.

Robot: A machine built to carry out some complex task or

group of tasks especially one which can be programmed.

Text: A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters,

symbols or sentences.
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Speech: the ability to speak or to use vocalization to

communicate.

System: A collection of organized things