An architecture for multi-lingual hands-free desktop control system for PC windows

Technology in the 21st century has achieved quantum leaps in serving many communities; from home, to school children, to government and municipalities, to nation. Personal computers (PC) have been central to these achievements and it is essential to facilitate their accessibility to people who have difficulties using the keyboard and mouse. In this work we present a framework for controlling the computer desktop with voice commands. This framework is based on PC Windows (Microsoft Windows XP) and it is language independent. The framework is tested for English (a Latin language) and Arabic (a semitic language). At the end of the paper we provide a comparison between this work and a similar work of windows Vista.