Voice Controlled System Application with Voicepad

Abstract

Speech recognition technology is one of the engineering technologies growing at a tremendous rate. It has various applications in different areas and also has many benefits. There are a lot of people in world suffering from various disabilities; many are blind, some cannot use their hands efficiently. The speech recognition systems could help such people. They can share information with people by operating computer through voice input. This gives the user an ease of controlling the system with the help of speech which gives an added advantage of quick action delivery, improves productivity, helps disabled people to use computers, etc. This also helps in aiding people to multitask most of the time while doing some work. There are various approaches which have enabled speech recognition and synthesis and that too in various programming languages and platform. In the proposed approach, they have used Java Speech Application Programming Interface and CloudGarden’s TalkingJava along with necessary updates. Various commands are implemented and tested. The VoicePad enables speech synthesis and speech recognition at the same time. For the performance measurement of the proposed approach, Response time is considered. Our implementation results shows improvement in response time. Our application has the ability to run on three operating systems, Windows, Linux and Macintosh.