Speech-to-text technology for hard-of-hearing people
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Hürlimann, Manuela; Galbier, Jolanda; Cieliebak, Mark
- Source
- Subject
- Natural language processing
Schwerhörigkeit
Accessibility
Speech-to-text
410.285: Computerlinguistik
- Language
- English
Hard-of-hearing people face challenges in daily interactions that involve spoken language, such as meetings or doctor’s visits. Automatic speech recognition technology can support them by providing a written transcript of the conversation. Pro Audito Schweiz, the Swiss federation of hard-of-hearing people, and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI) at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) conducted a preliminary study into the use of Speech-to-Text (STT) for this target group. Our survey among the members of Pro Audito found that there is large interest in using automated solutions for better understanding in everyday situations. We now propose to take the next step and develop an application which uses ZHAW’s high-quality STT models.