The implementation of cuvoicebrowser, a voice web navigation tool for the disabled Thais

Authors:
Proadpran Punyabukkana;Jirasak Chirathivat;Chanin Chanma;Juthasit Maekwongtrakarn;Atiwong Suchato
Affiliations:
Spoken Language Systems Group, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand;Spoken Language Systems Group, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand;Spoken Language Systems Group, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand;Spoken Language Systems Group, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand;Spoken Language Systems Group, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Venue:
ACST'07 Proceedings of the third conference on IASTED International Conference: Advances in Computer Science and Technology
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Surfing the web is, today, a daily activity for most. While we utilize the web as a means of publishing information to the world and accessing information from wherever, less fortunate people do not have that privilege and this includes the blind and the motor-handicapped. This paper explains how we have designed and built the CUVoiceBrowser, a web browser that can be controlled by voice in the Thai language to serve the Thai disabled group. While many have worked on text-to-speech capabilities in reading web pages to the blind, we focus on taking commands from the blinds and the motor-handicapped, in Thai, to navigate the web and to search for information on the web. Our prototype shows high accuracy rate of over 80% when users speak their web navigation commands, and over 70% when Thai characters are inputted by voice.