Track: Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

As reported by the World Health Organization, more than 5% of the world’s population suffers from disabling hearing loss. This percent translates to a total of 466 million people which is not a small number. Deaf and hearing-impaired people face several problems, which may affect their involvement and contribution to society. One of these problems is lacking of communication since sign languages that use by deaf people are not universal and use by everyone. Nowadays, watching videos has become an important element in our life. In fact, society is increasingly being more dependent on technology on a daily basis. Every day, they watch videos for many purposes (learning, news, enjoy, etc…). However, deaf people face challenge and issue in watching and understanding the content of these videos. These people do not take the advantages of the video’s content because there is no available text transcript for all videos. Therefore, there is a need for providing a solution that empowering deaf and hearing-impaired people to take advantage of any videos’ content to the fullest. Hence, this project will provide an IT solution, which is an android phone application that will facilitate and help them to understand the video's content (this is one of the communication problems) by providing videos’ transcripts in English and Arabic. “asmeany” application will immediately afford the transcript after uploading any video. The application "asmeany" - in Arabic - means the application communicates with deaf and hearing-impaired people and says to them play the video, so I can write the transcript for you.  The adopted development process of “asmeany” is the Scrum methodology. The authors will apply artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, especially the Natural Proccing Language (NLP) to afford the transcripts. “asmeany” will be an IT solution that could assist in solving one part of the communication problems that deaf and hearing-impaired people face every day.