Bahman Mirheidari Undergraduate Dissertation 2014/15

Voice Entry to the Digital World

Supervised by P.Green

Abstract

Disabled people often cannot access to compters (or the digital world) using the conventional mouse-keybord or touch screen. Voice technology can be used as an alternative access method for these people, however, people with speech difficulties, specially dysarthria, cannot benefit from the current standard voice recognition systems. The homeService project, developed by SpandH in University of Sheffield, aims at providing voice recognition technology for dysarthric people to help them in their life to access to the environmental devices such as TV, radio, etc, and also computers.

The main objective of this project is to use the homeService's voice technology to hel[ dysarthic people to access to the digital world. Voice controlled mouse and keyboard(V-Mouse and V-KEyboard), writing tool and predefined macros are the suggestd approaches to help these people. Since dysarhtic people have often different physical conditions, these tools should be personalised for them based on theor special needs.