Talkie

The purpose of creating Talkie is to provide a learning environment for blind and visually impaired students outside the classroom. The environment of e-learning provides more efficient and effective methods of acquiring and transferring knowledge compared to the traditional classroom environment. Individuals are still able to learn without the constraints of time and space. However, the e-learning environment is not fully capable of catering to individuals with disabilities. Talkie is created to cater the needs of persons with disabilities, especially for the blind and visually impaired. The web-based application is developed with speech recognition and synthesis technology to enable the users to interact with the system. It provides voice feedback to guide the user through the system and translates voice inputs into text when students take an exam. The developed e-learning system is fully functional and technically assessed to meet the requirements of its intended use. Based from the coordinators, teachers, and blind students' user acceptance test result, the developed system has met the requirements in providing a new learning medium for the blind and visually impaired students. The application is working properly according to its purpose and is suited to be used as an alternative learning environment.