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

Author

Abdeen, M. ; Mohammad, H. ; Yagoub, M.C.E.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. & Inf. Syst., Ain-Shams Univ., Cairo

fYear

2008

fDate

4-7 May 2008

Abstract

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.

Keywords

natural language interfaces; operating systems (computers); software architecture; speech-based user interfaces; Arabic language; English language; Microsoft Windows XP; PC Windows; multilingual hands-free desktop control system; personal computers; Application software; Control systems; Handheld computers; Human computer interaction; Keyboards; Microcomputers; Natural languages; Operating systems; Quantum computing; Speech recognition; HCI; Speech recognition; Windows;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2008. CCECE 2008. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Niagara Falls, ON

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1642-4

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2008.4564843

Filename

4564843