Development of a speech controlled android drawing application for handicapped people

A big margin of the handicapped people still do not have the same possibilities to express themselves and further advance their personality as the majority of the population. The control and use of smartphones proves to be a big challenge for them. Applications controlled by speech serve as a substitution to the finger controlled based applications that dominate the market. Through the use of such applications the handicapped have the chance to experience the life of the unburdened. Based on those implications the development of an application to support the artistic needs of the handicapped was imminent. The developed application achieves the support by being fully controllable by speech. The development proved to be a possibility but the limiting factors of the mobile phones and the pocketsphinx library hindered any groundbreaking results. Nonetheless the application allowed for a base research on the still small field of accessibility applications.