Abstract

The Advanced Research Projects Agency’s support of speech understanding research has led to a significantly increased level of activity in this area since 1971. Several connected speech recognition systems have been developed and demonstrated (Speech Recognition by Machine). Now more developments such as a personal assistant are designed to assist a busy knowledge worker in efficiently managing various tasks. (Myers et al., 2007) Our work aims to develop a personal assistant for Computers - Blink. Blink has its inspiration from Google Assistant on Android as it’s the leading and smartest assistant, but it is limited to mobile phones. Mobile phones are easy to use and learn due to just remembering a few things but this is not the case with computers. Smart Assistant tried to enter computers earlier but failed miserably. Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana are the most popular voice assistants (Hoy, 2018) that exist on OSX and Windows respectively but are extremely limited with Microsoft removing most of the functionality from Cortana. This is where Blink Comes in, it would be a personal assistant that would make using computers easier and more accessible to differently abled people. If they have some issues typing, they could just use the personal assistant via voice command to request their task or type it if they have issues speaking. It would also make doing stuff easier and faster for the young and older generations. Blink could rapidly directly compete with the competition as it would be able to listen to all the voice commands locally without the need for an internet connection and would maintain privacy which has been a major concern in most of the assistants