A webapp to improve online learning experience of people with hearing impairement with a broader objective of promoting inclusive education.
There are over 2 million children with hearing disability in India, and out of these, around 0.8 million are either dropouts or don’t have access to education. These numbers are staggering to even think about. It’s almost half certain that a person born with hearing loss would be able to get proper education.
Hearing loss is not an unknown disability, it is a partial or total inability to hear and it may be present at birth or acquired at any time afterwards. There are a number of challenges faced by persons with this disability, but are still not so much talked about in our daily conversation. We have tried our best to address some of those.
The biggest problem which they face on a daily basis, especially during this pandemic, is not being able to engage in video-based communication. This can go as far as not being able to learn from or watch any of the videos on YouTube or somewhere else on the internet.
Not only this, another problem we realised they must be facing would be the inability to figure out their pace of speech while speaking. It should be understandable that a person who has hearing loss present since their birth might not be able to speak, since they wouldn’t know how to pronounce words. And with assistance, they try to learn to speak but still lack direction on the way of speaking.
Aimed for the students who can attend lectures where the audio automatically gets transcribed into text real-time, just like auto-generated captioning on YouTube. The transcription starts as soon as the user hits the play button and automatically gets saved at the end of the lecture.
Go through saved lecture trancripts anytime for revision.
Built for assisting users with their speech of rate. While speaking, the app will show the users whether their speech is fast/perfect/slow or loud/perfect/soft. This feature helps them to assess themselves and improve with time. This will simultaneously improve their vocal skills as well as help them in effective communicating during the class.
An indispensable aspect for any hearing impaired student is communication. The application allows the student to submit their feedback about the lecture. The feedback can then be reviewed and the professor can respond to them. This will not only ensure a smooth teaching process, but also put in place a proper communication channel between the two.
Download or clone this repository on your system. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
- PYTHON 3.8.1
- FLASK 1.1.2
- Install python3 on your system
- Add python to environment variables
- Navigate to 'Codes' folder in terminal
- Create an evironment using the following command -> virtualenv THAT_env
- Activate the evironment using the following command
.\THAT_env\Scripts\activate (For Windows)
source THAT_env\bin\activate (For Ubuntu)
- Run command
pip3 install -r requirements.txt - Run command
python3 application.py - Click on localhost link generated after execution of previous command
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.