Voice Based Email System for Visually Impaired People

A decisive role can be played by communication in promoting human development in today's new climate of social change and of all the different communication technologies available, email is considered as one of the most pervasive forms of communication. However all these technologies can be of no use to the people who are visually impaired as all activities that can be performed on the computer are based on visual perception. 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 have low vision[1]. Therefore it becomes necessary to make available internet facilities for communication for them also. This paper aims to develop voice based email system for visually challenged people to use email system as efficiently as normal user. The system will not let the user to make the use of keyboard instead will work on speech to text conversion and vice-versa. The complete system is based on Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text API’s.