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UnMute App

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As the future progresses, more and more difficulties are being advanced, however, as we deal with problems that humankind has created, why can't we deal with situations that are natural, such as communicating with people who struggle with hearing impairments. Therefore, we introduce to you Un-Mute, an application that deals with this kind of situation. This application introduces a way to learn and communicate sign language, thus having a new universal physical language to interact with the world. The app is a two-way speaking platform that acts as an intermediate translator between spoken language and sign language. It utilizes different tools and components of apps interfaces such as text-boxes, speech recognizer, buttons, and Graphics Interchange Format GIF pictures. The text box is for the hard-of-hearing (to utilize text to speech) and a speech recognizer to unfold a GIF containing the said words. This invention will allow the impaired and the able to communicate without a hurdle to jump over. With the large swing in potential hearing loss (a potential 1 billion people are at risk), we believe it's time to stop this issue before it gets largely difficult.

Highlights

We are slowly dealing with problems that we've created, why can't we deal with our problems? Deafness is an issue that's slowly rising (more than 20% have hearing loss). Therefore, we've decided to try and solve the issue. Un-Mute is our revolutionary new app, which presents to the world a way to communicate and hear back from the hard of hearing. With a simple app interface, the world could have a new and easy way to speak to those who cannot. This application could help the hard of hearing and give them a way to tune in and be in touch with the world. With a trend in the rise of those with hearing loss, we believe it's a problem to be solved before it's too late. As the climb of loud music and booming noises from your headphones continues, it's an obvious problem that could affect us generations to come. The significance of this could be abhorrent in the decades to come - that's why our duty is to help solve it now. The app has been developed using MIT App Inventor and the sign language scenes in the app have been recorded in our computer lab by our team members. The app interface has a textbox, 3 buttons, and one big area for the logo. The big area is used also to display the sign language translation. The deaf/mute person will have the app installed in their phone, and they will use it as a translator to communicate with others according to the following steps. First, the deaf/mute person starts by typing their message in the textbox, and then press "Send" button. Then the phone will convert this text message into a voice message (speech). After that, the deaf/mute person presses the "Receive" button to allow the other person to talk. Once the "Receive" button is clicked, the voice recognizer starts automatically and gives a sound notification (peep) so the other person can start talking. Now, the other person responds to the voice message by talking to the phone (speech recognizer). Once the speech is done, the speech recognizer will translate the speech into a text message, and the recognizer will automatically so the deaf/mute person knows that the other person finished talking. Finally, the deaf/mute person presses the "Translate" button, which translates the other person into a sign language that will be displayed on the phone screen. We would love to collaborate with some hearing loss organizations and associations such as The Malaysian National Society of Audiologists (MANSA), so they can adopt our app to improve it to suit a larger range of people.

Contact Person/Inventor

Name Email Contact Phone
Iman Ayra Mohd Shafie happenings.secondary@idrissischool.edu.my 012-5285006
Ameerah Mujahidah
Adelia Maisarah binti Abdul Halil
Ahmad Uwais bin Ahmad Syauqi
Arissa Karimah Sjaugi
Raina Areesa binti Shahril Imri
Ayesha Ameera binti Mohamad Azman
Erynn Delisya Hilmya binti Erman Halimi
Iman Arif bin Kamaruzaman
Idd Al Farissi bin Faizol Radzi
Khadijah Mohd Sobri
Aamal Kauthar binti Amran
Wan Zed Rizwan
Yahya Shreif Othman
Rehab Ramadan Elmussi

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Award Title Award Achievement Award Year Received
Malaysia technology expo - 2023

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