Paper Title : A Text to Speech and Speech to Text Application for Students with Hearing and Speaking Impairments
ISSN : 2394-2231
Year of Publication : 2021
10.29126/23942231/IJCT-v8i5p2
MLA Style: Olubukola D. Adekola, Esther O. Adeoye, Oyebola Akande, Solomon S. Akpan " A Text to Speech and Speech to Text Application for Students with Hearing and Speaking Impairments " Volume 8 - Issue 5 September-October , 2021 International Journal of Computer Techniques (IJCT) ,ISSN:2394-2231 , www.ijctjournal.org
APA Style: Olubukola D. Adekola, Esther O. Adeoye, Oyebola Akande, Solomon S. Akpan " A Text to Speech and Speech to Text Application for Students with Hearing and Speaking Impairments " Volume 8 - Issue 5 September-October , 2021 International Journal of Computer Techniques (IJCT) ,ISSN:2394-2231 , www.ijctjournal.org
Abstract
Hearing impairment (HI) is a defect in which a person cannot hear properly or can only hear partially and it is usually measured using the hearing threshold which has a unit in decibels (dB). Deafness can be caused by accidents, old age, or sicknesses. Speech impairment is a defect in which a person cannot speak properly or has deficiency in the power of speech. Many text to speech (TTS) and speech to text (STT) applications have been made to make communication easier but hardy with a feature to record previous conversations. This study employed iterative development model to develop a text to speech and speech to text mobile application with the capability to track and record previous conversations which would yield benefits as progress in the academic and social life of hearing and speech impaired students. Analysis of the existing systems was done and the proposed system was designed using unified modeling language (UML) tools and others such as Ionic Framework, Angular JS, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Firebase.
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Keywords
— Hearing impairment, Speech impairment, Speech recognition, Speech synthesis