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P Voice Assistant
V.I.P Voice Assistant
Akshay Manjrekar
Student,
Information Technology Department,
ICLES’ Motilal Jhunjhunwala College of Arts,
Science and Commerce,
Plot No. 53, Amlendu Roy Marg,
Sector-9-A, Vashi,
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra 400703.
Email:akshaymanjrekar08@gmail.com
Mobile:+91-8419902095
Sarah Shaikh
Teacher,
Information Technology Department,
ICLES’ Motilal Jhunjhunwala College of Arts,
Science and Commerce,
Plot No. 53, Amlendu Roy Marg,
Sector-9-A, Vashi,
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra 400703.
Email: shaikh.sarah21@gmail.com
Mobile:
ABSTRACT
In recent years with advances in new technologies, mobile devices have grown in
popularity to become one of the most common consumer devices. Smartphones have played a
very big role in bringing speech technologies into mainstream usage. The purpose of voice
assistant systems is to exchange the information in a more interactive approach using speech
to commune.
‘Voice technology’ has been with us for many years now, in this modern world of
software’s and apps, cell phones are the very important part of modern life, many of us need
to make a call or send a message to anyone at anytime from anywhere.
Keeping this in mind “Smart V.I.P Voice Assistant” is a bunch of different features which will
be helpful for the visually impaired person to access some basic functionalities of android
phone.

Keywords: Voice assistant, Visually impaired, Android, Artificial Intelligence, Application.

1. INTRODUCTION
‘Voice technology’ has been with us for many years now, in this modern world of
software’s and apps, cell phones are the very important part of modern life, many of us need
to make a call or send a message to anyone at anytime from anywhere. Globally the number
of people of all ages visually impaired is estimated to be 285 million, of whom 39 million are
blind, out of this 37 million people over 15 people million are from India.
The visually impaired or blind people face many challenges daily in communicating with
the world around them. They have to depend on their sighted colleagues/friends for making a
phone call and accessing other mobile functionalities. This system is a voice recognizing
application for mobile phones that allow access to most of the functionalities of the phone
and make it possible for visually impaired or blind people to connect with society. The
sighted people with limited reading ability can also use this application if they are involved in
activities that prevent them from reading.

2. PURPOSE
The purpose of this study is to discuss the development of Android-based intelligent
software Assistant application for visually impaired or blind people. The application is
intended to help people with visual limitations to access various Android features.
The visually impaired or blind people face many challenges daily in communicating with
the world around them. They have to depend on their sighted colleagues/friends for making a
phone call and accessing other mobile functionalities. This system is a voice recognizing
application for mobile phones that allow access to most of the functionalities of the phone
and make it possible for visually impaired or blind people to connect with society. The
sighted people with limited reading ability can also use this application if they are involved in
activities that prevent them from reading.
The goal of this project is to develop voice assistant application that can be used by
visually impaired persons to use basic functionalities of android phone. The convenience of
being able to use android as normal peoples do, so convenience is one of the basic objectives
of this application.
The key goals are – assisting the visually impaired person to perform different tasks, help
to read documents, messages, notes etc. This application has implications for the society,
especially those with eyesight issues can be so much more productive and independent. This
can reduce the social burden in society.
The System is only used for visually impaired or blind people, hence there are no
Credentials to make it very easy and reliable.
 3. SURVEY OF TECHNOLOGIES
Following are some existing systems for visually impaired persons:

 Be My Eyes (iOS) (Android)

 NantMobile Money Reader (iOS)
 TapTapSee (iOS) (Android)
 Color ID Free (iOS) (Android)
 identify (iOS)
 Seeing AI (iOS)
 ThirdEye (iOS) (Android)
 BeSpecular (iOS) (Android)
 ViaOpta Hello (iOS) (Android)
 Soundscape (iOS)
 Intersection Explorer (Android)
 Lazarillo GPS for Blind (iOS) (Android)
 Arianna Navigatio (iOS) (Android)
 Lazzus: blind gps assistant (iOS) (Android)
 Google Text-to-Speech (Android)

4. REQUIREMENTS AND ANALYSIS

3.1 Problem Definition:

Blind people face a number of visual challenges every day – from reading the label on a
frozen dinner to figuring out if they’re at the right bus stop. Many tools have been introduced
to help in addressing these problems using computer vision and other sensors (talking OCR,
GPS, radar canes, etc.).

3.2 Functional Requirement:

The program should firstly be started on the Android phone. the initial mode of the program
is Voice mode since this program aims at making a voice assistant program. However, if there
are noisy conditions or users who prefer to operate in gesture mode can perform actions by
using specific gestures or taps.
After the program has been started, the user should have correct voice input
“command/request” to make those functions work properly. This program includes the
functions and services of: Calling, Messaging, AI camera, Notes, Smart Reader, Music
player, Location, Help, Battery and Time.
3.3 Security:
Android has some built-in security features that significantly reduce the frequency
and impact of application security issues. The system is designed in such a way that you can
typically build your apps with the default system and file permissions and avoid difficult
decisions about security. The following security features help to build secure apps:

 The Android Application Sandbox, which isolates your app data and code execution
from other apps.
 An application framework with robust implementations of common security
functionality such as cryptography, permissions, and secure IPC.
 Technologies like ASLR, NX, ProPolice, safe_iop, OpenBSD dlmalloc, OpenBSD
calloc, and Linux mmap_min_addr to mitigate risks associated with common memory
management errors.
 An encrypted file system that can be enabled to protect data on lost or stolen devices.
 User-granted permissions to restrict access to system features and user data.
 Application-defined permissions to control application data on a per-app basis.
 It is important that you be familiar with the Android security best practices in this
document. Following these practices as general coding habits reduce the likelihood of
inadvertently introducing security issues that adversely affect your users.

5. FIGURES

Fig. 1: Loading screen

Fig. 1: Menu screen

 6. CONCLUSION
Race in every field in the era of proliferation, confidential and liberalization, has pushed up
the use of technology including smartphone applications. With the augmentation of
technology and the popularization of the smartphone, visually challenged people have the
essential needs to disperse into the information age, make up physical shortcomings and
enhance their learnability effects and efficiency by smartphones. The usability is very
important to software. This paper has analysed existing applications for visually challenged
people and proposed a better application that can help blind users to carry out their routine
tasks smoothly. If the application is user-friendly and better in terms of usability, a person
with visual impairment would find easier to accomplish their daily routine tasks.

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