Internet Access by Voice Commands: Navigation Application for Facebook, Gmail and Chrome

A system to navigate the internet using voice commands is presented. The implemented tool allowed verbal control of Google Chrome, Gmail and Facebook applications. The tests were conducted on a group of 33 people with different experiences browsing the Internet composed of young adults, older adults and people with motor disabilities. Each of the applications was tested separately using guided dialogues with voice commands and dictations. In the speech recognition system’s tests, 2871 voice commands and 594 dictations were used, observing a better result for voice commands in the Facebook application and dictation in the Google Chrome application. A general average of 84.69% with a standard deviation of 6.45% was obtained for the recognition of voice commands, and 74.63% with a standard deviation of 2.75% for the recognition of dictations