Abstract:
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In the Sri Lankan community, we meet lots of visually impaired people in our day-to day life. Sometimes we meet them in public transport. So, most of the time people help
them to identify the current location and identify their destination as well. In that case,
we can understand that there are no systems or methods to identify their current location
and their destination when using transport. But in the other countries, there are various
machine learning models used on applications, and systems for this purpose. But in Sri
Lanka, there are no such models or applications. This requirement can be identified in
Sri Lanka. There are no facilities or resources for visually impaired people to search
their destinations from their native language (Sinhala) language.
Guidance Providing System for people with disability is a field of research that in the
recent past has gained a lot of focus. The current work, the approaches or techniques
are not simple or properly recorded in the knowledge body. If the existing work is
evaluated and placed under a standard criterion of assessment, it can assist in continuing
research. A review of the current work in the Guidance Providing System in Speech
Recognition, the problems that are identified is discussed. The benefits and the
disadvantages of the various approach and their reviews are discussed in terms of
approved algorithms, functionality, and implementations.
The main goal of this project is to provide a guidance providing system for disability
people via the Sinhala language based on speech recognition and the NLP approach.
The system provides a better guidance direction reminding experience for the user to
take the necessary identification they are traveling on transportation. Another thing is
this project's main focus area is to implement a client-server architectural-wise design
improvement for the above-proposed problem too.
As a result, this is a very active research area. Due to the constraints of the available
datasets, researchers faced numerous challenges when implementing these guidance providing systems. Researchers have to collect data and build new datasets for their
projects, which is a time-consuming process. After that, the calculated data will be sent
into a voice recognition algorithm to be trained. The user's destination name will be
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given to the server after classifying and analyzing those data. The author provided an
architectural wise solution approach, which was 95% accurate.
Finally, the mobile application was implemented. This will contribute
to the improvements of the guidance systems.
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