STAVI : Smart Travelling Application for the Visually Impaired

The main objective of this paper was to develop a software application for smart phones to help the visually impaired in assisting their daily activities. The approach focused on helping the visually impaired to navigate from a source to destination without any hassle and to avoid multiple rerouting. The above approach was used to ensure that the users no more faced the issues of re-routing and also provides a voice-based feedback system giving information about their surroundings. Furthermore, the proposed approach was carried out with a single voice assisted application where different features such as calling, messaging, emergency help, landmark and bus stop detection along with the main navigation without rerouting. Hence this helped to provide a single interface voice-based system for the visually impaired to perform basic functionalities on a Smart phone efficiently without depending on another human being for constant assistance.