Assessing the Utility of Mobile Applications with Support for or as Replacement of Hearing Aids

Offiah, Marvin C.; Rosenthal, Susanne; Borschbach, Markus

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2014.07.079

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“…The requirements for these tools must be further studied in order to improve usability and usefulness [38]. Assistive technologies for the hearing-impaired must be designed to fit for all and more commercialised as many are only designed for research purposes [39,27,40]. Many solutions that are present are flawed as most are one-sided, they either work for a certain group of hearing deficient individuals (deaf, hard of hearing, or mute) or they work only under specifically predefined situations.…”

Section: Overview Of Current Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deaf Chat: A Speech-to-Text Communication Aid for Hearing Deficiency

Shezi¹,

Ade-Ibijola²

2020

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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Hearing impairments have a negative impact in the lives of individuals living with them and those around such individuals. Different applications and technological tools have been developed to help reduce this negative impact. Most mobile applications that have been developed that use Speech-to-Text technology have been inconsistent such that they are not inclusive of all types of hearing impaired individuals, only work under specifically predefined environments and do not support conversations with multiple participants. This makes the present tools less effective and makes hearing impaired participants feel like they are not completely part of the conversation. This paper presents a model that aims to address this by introducing the use of Multiple-Speaker Classification technology in the design of mobile applications for hearing impaired people. Furthermore we present a prototype of a mobile application called Deaf Chat that uses the newly designed model. A survey was conducted in order to evaluate the potential that this application has to address the needs of hearing-impaired people. The results of the evaluation presented a good user acceptance and proved that a platform like Deaf Chat could be useful for the greater good of those who have hearing impairment.

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Section: Overview Of Current Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%