Design and Development of Writing Robot Using Speech Processing

Abstract

In the present education scenario, the disabled students are facing difficulties in writing examinations with the help of scribe which increases the gap between education and disabled students. This may lead to an increase in the number of dropouts from schools and colleges. Our proposed system aims to help such disabled students to take-up their examinations easily through speech processing and robot technology. Our proposed system is an interactive system in which students can hear the questions and speak out the answers in a systematic order after which the whole transcript is mailed to the teacher which is then engraved by the robotic arm on a paper. At the end of examination, the answer sheet of the student comes out as softcopy as well as hardcopy. To implement the proposed work we have used a software unit which uses python library speech_recognition and hardware unit which uses Arduino Uno and CNC shield. The proposed system has a Word Error Rate of 21%.