Internet4ALL
Web browsing for blind people
WEB • INCLUSIVENESS
The purpose of the Internet4All system is to support blind persons in navigating well-structured HTML Websites the most general way possible by providing users with the maximum freedom of choice among a wide range of browsing options. Thanks to its advanced features for the conceptualization of voice communication between the various websites resources reached (and reachable) and the final user himself, Internet4All guarantees a very high level of usability.
Technological Objective: Spoken Language interfaces for free and general purpose Web browsing
Reference User: Italian Ministry of Economic Development
Project timeline: January 2017-April 2019
Technological Partner: Mediavoice
Dynamic human-machine interactions
Internet4All allows the user different kind of interactions through voice commands
Home Page Browsing – Search of a homepage (e.g. newspaper or company)
“Go to The Post“
“Open the Reveal website“
News Search – Search for specific items (news) in a newspaper’s home page
“I would like to hear last news of the Daily Telegraph“
“Read me all news about the government from The Guardian“
Local Editions – Search for specific items in the Local Editions of a newspaper
“Find me the Rome edition of Corriere della Sera“
“Read the news of Il Messaggero in the Sport section“
Section Search – Search for specific items in the menu of a given Website Section
“What are the products of Geox?“
“What reference does Perugina have?“
Service Search – Search for a specific service among the ones available on the Web
“Translate good morning into Arabic“
“What are synonyms for hermeneutics“
Address Search – Search for details on the address of an organization, individual or institution
“How can I contact Saeco customer care?“
“Where is the headquarter of Smeg“
Info Search – Generic search of information on the Web
“What does diaphanous mean?“
“Find the word temperament on Cambridge Dictionary“
Commercial Service Search – Search for goods and physical services providers (e.g. PA offices, banks, shops, etc.)
“I’m looking for an ATM in the area“
“Where can I get a CT scan near my position“
Form Compile – Create an announcement on a specific web page
“ want to create a job announcement as a teacher in Rome area“
Travel Search – Search for specific locations or means of transport
“Find me a direct flight from Milan to Bari“
“What time is a train from Verona to Padua for tomorrow morning?“
Internet 4All features
A bunch of features that allow managing human-machine interaction dynamically depending on the specific analysis of the contents of each Website page, as well as on the dialog planned on the basis of the linguistic acts recognized.
- Web page localization.
- Download and standardization of a page.
- Semantic extraction of the contents of a page, according to the domain, the page type and the type of interaction that the dialogue suggests up to that point.
- Dialogue planning.
- Answers design and TTS translation.
The Internet4All flexible architecture
The architecture of the system is therefore based on a flexible communication mechanism.
Mechanisms preferably asynchronous and parallelizable. in order to take into account of the independent nature of different processes: download, semantic recognition and synthesis of results. It is, therefore, useful to consider a centralized logic where the activation of the different services is made available by a specific component, the central orchestrator, who is responsible for the collection of the various pieces of evidence of a dialogue session and of the control of information flows in the star-distributed system.