Paper Info
Title
SeeSpeech: an Android application for the hearing impaired
Abstract
Speech recognition is a mature technology which specifically refers to translating spoken language into text. All modern OS platforms include speech to text tools. It is used for dictation and voice device control, as well as in AI assistants, such as Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri and Cortana. Such solutions do not work out-of-the-box for the hearing impaired. Special requirements have to be taken into account when offering a specialized real-time speech to text transcription device addressing the hearing impaired. The objective of this paper is to present an application specifically designed for deaf or hearing-impaired people, to help them understand what other people are saying to them. The SeeSpeech application implements an interface for a simple dialogue with a deaf or hearing-impaired person in different languages, integrating two APIs for transforming speech to text. A key feature of the application is the ability to register sound from an external Bluetooth microphone. This makes SeeSpeech a very competitive application in the arena of similar scope applications. Enhanced reliability is demonstrated through a detailed comparison with a similar scope application available in Google Play, called TextHear. SeeSpeech is also logging the conversations, allowing anytime the review of past messages in a stored conversation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3316782.3324013
Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Keywords
Field
DocType
Android, android speech to text API, assistive application, bluetooth microphone, deafness, google cloud speech API, hearing aid, hearing impaired, see speech, smartphone, speech to text
Android (operating system),Computer science,Human–computer interaction
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6232-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Apostolos Meliones16216.35
Cosmin Duta200.34