Hearing Impaired Assistive platform

In collaboration with the life makers foundation and funded by  Samsung Egypt, Hearing  Impaired  Assistive platform presented their  solution to the challenge of "Visual Assisted Learning" which was published on Yomken.com’s platform to find innovative solutions to help hearing impaired students in their education by providing better tools 

The Solution

An Egyptian Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)  platform for Egyptian Arabic dialect with fixed lips detection window. This software is made specifically for hearing impaired individuals to ease their access to e-learning and academic education especially for higher education level which would provide them with better job opportunities and better integration in society.

The Team

The solvers are a group of senior students: Abdallah Elhag, Mohamed MOtair, Sohail El-Badrawy and Mohamed Salah at the department of systems and biomedical engineering, faculty of engineering, Cairo University. Their graduation project under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed Morsy is dedicated to helping hearing-impaired students and aims to integrate more people with hearing disabilities in education.

The Challenge

The "Visual Assisted Learning" challenge aims to create better education tools to help hearing impaired students by developing technologies (devices or applications) to assist the hearing impaired students in receiving knowledge and/or teachers with the delivery of knowledge of school materials taught in the classroom with the following criteria:

• Tech-enabled or digital
• Affordable
• Portable
• Sustainable (can be used for long periods)
• Ongoing technical support and updates
• User-friendly

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