Android sms support assistant for the Luganda speaking blind persons.

Abstract

The Population in Uganda is always increasing exponential throughout the all nation with an annual increase of at least a million people. The ever increasing population of Uganda consists of a certain proportion of Luganda speaking blind persons. which are spread all over the country. Messaging is done by specifying the Receiver's contact number and the message body which has always been hard for the Luganda Speaking Blind person through the existing applications due to sight disabilities. Basically the current methods of messaging are too hard for the Luganda Speaking Blind Persons to use due to their design and Language used. Despite the improvements in technology and wide spreading applications, the problem experience by the Luganda speaking blind people during the sending and receiving of messages with the existing messaging application has not been solved. yet. The existing applications. have limitations during their usage such as language used, user interface design and hence they do not interactively favor the Luganda speaking blind persons. Since most of the Blind people in Uganda are illiterate but they know how to speak Luganda, it is therefore necessary to simplify the existing technology and mobile messaging applications to ease the life of the Luganda speaking Blind people, thus an android sms support assistant for Luganda speaking blind persons has been developed to solve this problem. This new application that uses Luganda Speech to Luganda Text and Luganda Text to Luganda Speech technology for communication has been developed to ease communication for the Luganda Speaking blind person with his or her friends through messages. The main objective of this project is to develop an android sms support assistant for Luganda speaking. blind persons since it is observed that Luganda. speaking blind -persons are limited by the current messaging applications in both sending of messages and understanding the received message.