16 Smart IoT Assistant for Government Schemes and Policies Using Natural Language Processing

Our chapter describes the automatic ways of conveying the government schemes, rules, regulations, and basic policies for the well-being of the people. The beneficial schemes and policies for the people are not able to reach every common man of the country as there is no proper medium of contact. Text-To-Speech, a part of Natural Language Processing has been one of the challenging research fields which aim to develop smart electronic gadgets. The chapter presents a mini computer-based smart assistant with an integrated Text-To-Speech synthesizer for sending the government schemes and policies to the common people as a short message in user preferred languages. The conversion of text form to audio form is developed as equivalent to the natural human voice. This model is emphasized with Natural Language Processing and Digital Signal Processing. The schemes are mainly posted on government websites and portals. Web scraping is a quick and efficient extraction method to fetch data in the form of news from government official websites. The smart assistant can be used for multiple services. The result is tested with different government websites in various text formats and verified in three different languages. The government schemes and policies narrate the information as the natural human voice in different languages.