Implementation of an Online Text Message Reader for Blinds

Abstract

The evolutions of communications technologies have improved the daily lifestyle and enhanced welfare. Use of messages through communication media has been utilized since the twentieth century when it has evolved from SMS, EMS, MMS, to messages over the Internet. The usage of most knowledge sources today like E-books, journals, magazines, Emails, and short message services are a great challenge faced many review people like blinds, weak sights and busy people in most services such as aviation and medical fields and where the use of the hands and eyes are not applicable available to read text message on their mobiles or e-mails in their PDAs or when one of the hands or eyes busy in the fields of command and control. So they need a new approach to improve their usage of ICTs. In this research implemented a system that converted text-to-speech by using some applications of the phone such as the application of online VOIP like Skype to get a good reader as much as possible for text messages of various types with little cost; make everyone get this service and take utility of them. This implementation was done by using VB.NET programming language with Skype application. Also in this research, evaluated the TTS system by using different methods, like Diagnostic rhyme tests (DRT), Semantically Unpredictable Sentences (SUS) Test And The Mean Opinion Score (MOS) Test.