Electronic Counseling System for the Visually Impaired in Enugu State Nigeria

Abstract

This paper was developed for visually impaired students in Anambra state Nigeria for proper interaction with counselors. Based on discussion with some visually impaired students called for this research effort to investigate on how to design and build a voice command computer based counseling system that work with voice recognition program since they cannot see with their eyes reply electronic mails sent to them, the voice command interface helps them to listen and answer questions effectively from their counselors. Keeping in view a strong need for managing these students’ information and problems a network computer based counseling system with voice command was designed and developed. Electronic counseling in Anambra State does not consider how visually impaired reply electronic mails sent by their counselors. It is web based application that uses Visual Basic .Net, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), JavaScript, PHB (Hypertext Pre Processor), Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine and SQL (Structured Query Language) to implement and Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology was adopted since it is based on states and behaviour of objects. The system uses Microsoft speech recognition to read electronic mails sent to students by online counselors. It is user friendly and provides simple and efficient way for managing students’ problems.