Voice Based Smart Internet Surfing for Blind using JADE Agent and HTML5 Developing Environment

Abstract

Internet nowadays represents the essential nerve for knowledge and information retrieval, millions of pages are published over the web every single day and valuable information is broadcasted to the public; with this expansion, and information retrieval became a hard task due to the numerous amounts of documents that have high degree of similarity when it comes to text matching schemes. Blind people are part of the communities and part of them are collapsed a way of the revolution of information due to absence of proper tools grants them the ability to surf the internet. This paper and many other efforts are targeting the objectivity of activating blind people interaction with the environment; this paper carries out an innovation scheme by deploying mutli-agent system to provide intelligent assistance services that help blind people getting into the proper page in surfing the internet. Knowledge from other sites are transferred to central unit which holds the experience and utilize it for the behalf of blind people. Multi-agent systems have been deployed and results showed knowledge developed to help blinds.

Keywords: HTML5, Web Speech API, Speech Based browser, Intelligent Agent, JADE, knowledge epistemology.