PHOENIX -THE BLIND LEARNING APPLICATION
IJIRIS:: International Journal of Innovative Research in Information Security, Volume VII (Issue IV):
48-52. (June 2020)1. Be My Eyes: Android Voice Application for Visually Impaired People by RuchaDoiphode, MayuriGanore, AshwiniGarud, TejaswiniGhuge, Parminder Kaur (Guide) Department Of Computer Science Engineering Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, Aurangabad, India 2. A new Android application for blind and visually impaired people by PiotrKardyś, Adam Dąbrowski Division of Signal Processing and Electronic Systems Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland. 3. P.Kardyś,A.Dąbrowski,“Standard Bluetooth Natlebezprzewodowy chsystemów telekomunikacy jnychkrót kiegozasięgu w aplikacjach bio-itelemedycznych”, Elektronika 52 (5), 5/2011, pp. 56–59. 4. R. E. Sorace, V. S. Reinhardt, and S. A. Vaughn, “High-speed digital-to-RF converter,” U.S. Patent 5 668 842, Sept. 16, 1997. (2002) The IEEE website. Online. Available: http://www.ieee.org/..DOI: https://doi.org/10.26562/ijiris.2020.v0705.001
Abstract
In this proposed work, “Phoenix” the blind app, a learning solution for visually impaired people which makes smart phones also blind friendly. As per our society is concerned, there are many learning solutions for the especially abled citizens, and in case of blinds there are little efforts introduced. Those small efforts taken to provide learning platforms or solutions for visually impaired people require the help of another person. Since blinds are the users of this application, the app concentrates on voice recognition, speech to text conversion and finger touch sense concepts which makes the application easier for the users. As the application runs on the background and it can be opened using speech, it makes the users to be independent. This application enhances the learning via providing audio tutorials on different subjects which can be learned theoretically. The users can communicate with the application through speech. With rapid growth of wireless communication, the need for voice recognition techniques has increased greatly. In the application, controls are provided via voice and touch mechanism.
Description
The development of multimedia, communication techniques, in the recent years, caused complete replacement of traditional cellular phones by new modernised Smartphone [4]. Which made, making phone calls no longer their main function, large-touch screen Smartphone became more like portable computers, which offer different capabilities like taking pictures with high resolution, filming with a mini-camera, to using the Internet. Smartphone having such features, like a built-in microprocessor, have not become smart enough for the usage of blinds; they do not meet the expectations of blind people because of their limited ability to use them. Latest Smartphone have only a few real buttons (felt by touch) to control volume, lock the screen, switch on and off the phone, so for accessing the other menu or features of the phone we depend on the graphical interface displayed on the touch screen [2]. As the evolution of mobile phones did not turn as a favour for the blind, the older models (with pushbuttons) are still being used by the blind that, unfortunately, miss the wide capabilities the modern telephones offer.
With development in modern technologies, mobile devices have grown in such a way that Cell phones have become a necessity in everyone’s life [1]. Many of us use cell phones for learning purposes. But for a visually impaired person this is challenging! Braille is a system of raised dots that people can feel with their fingers and that represent letters and words.
This will be helpful for their basic education on alphabets. But for them to gain more knowledge on a particular subject they need to be dependent on someone. So as a helping hand for blind, utilising their capabilities like speech, simple finger touch and finger movements we have developed an app.
“PHOENIX” is an android application which helps blinds to learn different courses through audio tutorials. The main aim of the application is to make it blind friendly. The visually impaired person will be able learn his or her favourite courses, theoretically through this app using audio tutorials. The application runs in the background as a service which allows the user to open the app through voice command. Except for some initial settings such as logging and permission settings, the user might not require the help of a second person. The application constraints that the user should have the basic education on languages which he prefers. The applications communicate with the user through voice instructions and the user is able to navigate to use features in the app using voice commands and touch mechanism. The user is able to navigate to use the features in the app using voice commands and touch mechanisms.