VIP READY: A Mobile Leisure Search Engine for Visually Impaired Persons Utilizing Phone Motion and Speech Recognition

VIP-READY: A Mobile Leisure Search Engine for Visually Impaired Persons Utilizing Gesture and Speech Recognition was developed to help the visually impaired. It is a navigation mobile application with speech recognition technology that is conceptualized and designed to assist visually impaired person on locating leisure and place they want to go to. One of the main purposes of this project is to address the needs of giving a fair access to the world to any kind of person with disability. The research was designed and accomplished through different scientific processes and techniques. Through the help of MFCC and HMM an accent friendly speech recognition was developed. This paper found out that this kind of application can promote mobility in navigation for different kind of visually impaired person. Nevertheless, the instinct of totally blind person is still needed for a better navigation. The researchers would like to give stressed that researches that can help any kind of person with disability must be promoted and considered by many researchers.