TITLE:
Educational System for the Holy Quran and Its Sciences for Blind and Handicapped People Based on Google Speech API
AUTHORS:
Samir A. Elsagheer Mohamed, Allam Shehata Hassanin, Mohamed Tahar Ben Othman
KEYWORDS:
Blind; Illiterate and Manual-Disabled People; Quran Sciences; Speech Recognition; Learning Systems
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.7 No.3,
March
27,
2014
ABSTRACT: There is a great need to provide
educational environments for blind and handicapped people. There are many
Islamic websites and applications dedicated to the educational services for the
Holy Quran and Its Sciences (Quran Recitations, the interpretations, etc.) on
the Internet. Unfortunately, blind and handicapped people could not use these
services. These people cannot use the keyboard and the mouse. In addition, the
ability to read and write is essential to benefit from these
services. In this paper, we present an educational environment that allows
these people to take full advantage of the scientific materials. This is done
through the interaction with the system using voice commands by speaking
directly without the need to write or to use the mouse. Google Speech API is used for the universal speech
recognition after a preprocessing and post processing phases to improve the
accuracy. For blind people, responses of these commands will be played back
through the audio device instead of displaying the text to the screen. The text
will be displayed on the screen to help other people make use of the system.