ABSTRACT

This paper presents a multilingual search engine and text to speech system (TTS) developed to help hands-busy and visually impaired/aged people. Wide spread use of computers and Internet for the last two decades has made any information available in fraction of seconds. People of all ages prefer web searching than books. This resulted in development of very powerful search engines. But they are not that user friendly when it comes to searching using regional language and producing the required information in a convenient way to disabled/aged/hands-busy people, particularly for Indian languages. The work presented here is an effort to overcome these limitations of search engine. Shodhika Bhashini not only searches the information in a user friendly way but also speaks out the information. This multilingual TTS and search engine is developed for communicating in Telugu, English & Hindi language. Same can be extended for other south Indian languages.