SRNK GOVT.

DEGREE COLLEGE, BANSWADA

JIGNASA 2019-20
STUDENT STUDY PROJECT
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
TITLE: “VOICE BASED E-MAIL SYSTEM FOR BLIND PEOPLE”
SUBMITTED BY:
1. R.MURALI B.SC(MPCs)-III YEAR 1705-5034-468-048
 2. PRASHANTH B.SC(MPCs)-III YEAR 1705-5034-468-020
 3. R.SANDHYA B.SC(MPCs)-III YEAR 1705-5034-468-045
 4. B.MOUNIKA B.SC(MPCs)-III YEAR 1705-5034-468-006
5. K.VAMSHI PRIYA B.SC(MPCs)-III YEAR 1705-5034-468-029
  6. M. NAVEEN B.SC(MPCs)-III YEAR 1705-5034-468-036
GUIDED BY:
B. SANDHYA RANI
LECTURER IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
SRNK GOVT. DEGREE COLLEGE, BANSWADA
INDEX
1. ABSTRACT

2. INTRODUCTION
 3. PROPOSED SYSTEM

4. EXISTING SYSTEM

5. DESIGN OF PROJECT

6. IMPLEMENTATION
 REGISTRATION
 LOGIN
 BMAIL APP PAGE
 COMPOSE MAIL
 INBOX

7. FINDINGS

8. CONCLUSION

9. SUGGESTIONS

10.REFERENCE

ABSTRACT:

Internet has become one of the basic amenities for day-to-day living. Every human being is
widely accessing the knowledge and information through internet. However, “visually
challenged” people face difficulties in accessing these text materials, also in using any service
provided through internet. The advancement in computer based accessible systems has opened
up many avenues for the visually impaired across the globe in a wide way. Audio feedback based
virtual environment like, the screen readers have helped “visually challenged” people to access
internet applications immensely. We describe the Voicemail system architecture that can be used
by a “visually challenged” person to access e-Mails easily and efficiently. The contribution
made by this research has enabled the “visually challenged” people to send and receive voice
based e-Mail messages in their native language with the help of a computer.

INTRODUCTION
Internet plays a vital role in today’s world of communication. Today the world is running on the
basis of internet. No work can be done without use of internet. Electronic mail i.e. email is the
most important part in day to day life. But some of the people in today’s world don’t know how
to make use of internet, some are blind or some are illiterate. So it goes very difficult to them
when to live in this world of internet. Nowadays there are various technologies available in this
world like screen readers, ASR, TTS, STT, etc. but these are not that much efficient for them.

Around 39 million people are blind and 246 people have low vision and also 82 of people living
with blindness are 50 aged and above. We have to make some internet facilities to them so they
can use internet.

Therefore we came up with our project as voice based email system for blinds which will help a
lot to visually impaired peoples and also illiterate peoples for sending their mails.

The users of this system don’t need to remember any basic information about keyboard shortcuts
as well as location of the keys.

Simple mouse click operations are needed for functions making system easy to use for user of
any age group. Our system provides location of where user is prompting through voice so that
user doesn’t have to worry about remembering which mouse click operation he/she wants to
achieve

EXISTING SYSTEMS
Simple e-mail systems are available in which only voice recognition & text-to-speech systems
are accessible. The voice based e-mail system proposed by T.Shabana, A.Anam, A.Rafiya,
K.Aisha has made use of IVR, Speech to text converter, Mouse click event and Screen reader.
Input is based on speech & mouse clicks to give output.

PROPOSED SYSTEM
The visually challenged people find it very difficult to utilize this technology because of the fact
that using them requires visual perception. 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. In this system mainly three types of technologies are used namely: STT (Speech-to-text),
: here whatever we speak is converted to text. Their will a small icon ofmic on whose clicking
the user had to speak and his/her speech will be converted to text format, which the naked people
would see and read also.
TTS (text-to-speech) this, method is full opposite of STT. In this method, which converts the
text format of the emails to synthesized speech?

IVR (Interactive voice response): IVR is an advanced technology describes the interaction
between the user and the system in the way of responding by using keyboard for the respective
voice message. IVR allows user to interact with an email host system via a system keyboard,
after that users can easily service their own enquiries by listening to the IVR dialogue. IVR
systems generally respond with pre-recorded Audio voice to further assist users on how to
proceed.
The audio that would be pre-recorded and the system need to have large volumes. System
architecture of proposed system is shown in fig.1

DESIGN

User Interface Design:

The user interface is designed using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. The complete website focuses
more on efficiency in understanding the IVR rather than the look and feel of the system as the
system is primarily developed for the blind people to whom the look and feel won’t be of that
primary importance as the efficiency of understanding the prompting would be.

Database Design

Our system maintains a database for user validation and storing mails of the user. There are a
total of five tables. The Inbox, Sent-Mail schemas will store all mails of the respective service
that belongs to that particular user.
System Design

Our System is voice oriented. When user is over every legal space in website, it will receive
voice messages where user is right now. If normal people don’t want this feature they can turn it
off. The system work flow is defined in DFD diagrams.

IMPLEMENTATION

The system developed by us includes following modules as follows:

REGISTRATION
This is the first module of system. Any of the users who want to use the system should first
register himself to obtain his/her own username and password.

Registration module will obtain all the details about user by voice commands given by the
system that where to fill which information. The user should speak the details as the system
requires. If the information is incorrect then the system will be telling about re-enter the
information again.

LOGIN

This is the second module of system. Once the registration is done the user can login to the
system. Login module will ask user to provide username and password. Here the process goes in
speech to text conversation of user. User is told to validate whether he/she entered details are
correct or not. If the details are correct then the user is authorized and will enter to the main
page.
BMAIL APP PAGE

The user is directed to this page once login is done successfully. From this page now the user
can perform operations that the user wishes to perform. The options available are:

 Inbox:
 Compose:

User will be guided with the help of IVR in which direction he has to move.

Also there is an icon for logout, which would read as “logout” when mouse goes or rolls over it.
So, when the user wants can logout from the system

COMPOSE MAIL
These are not only the most used mail function but also a very important feature of mailing
systems. Without compose, one cannot mail. Since the system is for “visually challenged”
people and keyboard operations are completely avoided composing mail is totally done on voice
input and mouse operations. No typed input will be required, as the system totally focuses on
simple mouse click operations.. User can record the messages by clicking on the small mic
option present in front of every box. Here, the STT technology gets used, that means speech gets
converted to text.

INBOX:
This option helps the user view all the mails that has been received to his/her account. The user
can listen to mails Which he/she wants to listen? By clicking on authorize button the user can
access to his/her inbox account.

CONTACT US:
There is also a contact us page build up in our project, thus enabling the users to suggest any
opinion or they are free to ask any query they faced during the functioning of the product.

FINDINGS:

The visually challenged people find it very difficult to utilize this technology because of the fact
that using them requires visual perception. 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. In this system mainly three types of technologies are used
namely:

STT (SPEECH-TO-TEXT):Here whatever we speak is converted to text. Their will a small

TTS (TEXT-TO-SPEECH): This, method is full opposite of STT. In this method, which
converts the text format of the emails to synthesized speech? IVR (Interactive voice response):

IVR: Allows user to interact with an email host system via a system keyboard, after that users
can easily service their own enquiries by listening to the IVR dialogue. IVR systems generally
respond with pre-recorded. Audio voice to further assist users on how to proceed. The audio that
would be pre-recorded and the system need to have large volumes.
CONCLUSION:

This e-mail system can be used by any user of any age group with ease of access. It has feature
of speech to text as well as text to speech with speech reader which makes designed system to be
handled by visually impaired person as well as “visually challenged” person.
Once the user logs into his account, he will be directed to Home Page. Home Page consists of
buttons for several different mail services like Inbox, Compose, Sent and Logout. If he wants to
listen to the mails he has received, he needs to click on “Inbox” button, or if he wants to
compose his message and send, he needs to click on “Compose” button, or if he wants to listen to
the mail he has recently sent, he needs to click on “Sent” button. If the user wishes to logout of
his account, then he can do the same by clicking on “Logout” button.

SUGGESTIONS:

1. For people who can see, e-mailing is not a big deal, but for people who are not blessed
with gift of vision it postures a key concern because of its intersection with many
vocational responsibilities.

2. This voice based email system has great application as it is used by visually challenged
people as they can understand where they are. E.g. whenever cursor moves to any icon on
the website say Register it will sound like “Register Button”. There are many screen
readers available. But people had to remember mouse clicks.

3. Rather, this project will reduce this problem as mouse pointer would read out where
he/she lies. This system focuses more on user friendliness of all types of persons
including regular persons, visually compromised people as well as illiterate.
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[1] T.shabana, a.anam, a.rafiya3, k.aisha, “voice based email system for “visually challenged”s”
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[2] Code project, “speech recognition” http://www.codeproject.com/articles/5820/speech-
recognition
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