Hearing The Unheard,

Speaking The Unsaid…

Software for the

Less Abled

PROBLEM STATEMENT We have always had this constant conflict between equality-

inequality when it comes to discrimination amongst the human race.

Discriminating people on the basis of their cast, creed, religion or colour is unjust, but in this list pertaining to the weaker sections of the society , we’ve always neglected one section i.e. physically challenged

About 15% of the world population has some sort of disability. As of 2014, 360 million people worldwide has moderate to profound hearing loss. Current production of hearing aids meets only 10% of the global need.

People with disabilities are more likely to be unemployed. One of the major setbacks of the hearing impaired or speech impaired person is Communication.

Over time there have been developments in the sign languages that help them interact with people of their kind but they get side-lined when it comes to bigger opportunities just because of one barrier i.e. language Hence, we decided to provide a medium that is universal and easy to decipher for the general crowd.

It was when we saw a bunch of speech impaired people enjoying a joke and having a hearty laugh in the bus which was propagated via sign their language, that we realised how different their world is from ours! And that’s when we decided to come up with something that will help the less abled and highly talented people contribute to the progress and betterment of our country.

Don’t they deserve to taste the luxuries of the growing technologies. Just because one part of their body was composed differently does that mean we should deprive them of all their rights?

YOUR SOLUTION The solution to the problem of this communication barrier

between hearing or the speech impaired and the common man is by making a gesture recognition device

The device will intake gestures and give out output in terms of text

TECHNOLOGY To solve the issue of communication between the hearing

impaired and a common man as well as between speech impaired and common man we have come up with the idea of gesture recognition.

In simpler terms, we give gesture to text output. The idea is setup on capturing and interpreting human

gestures. The device will have a memory containing a library which

consists of a stack of human gestures. The designed software identifies meaningful gestures from

the predetermined gesture library where each gesture is matched to a command.

UNIQUE SELLING POINT

Less than 10 percent of the global need is met through hearing aid production. About 1 out of 40 people needing hearing aids have them in developing countries.

In 2025, it is estimated that 900 million people throughout the world will be hearing impaired.

It is estimated that out of the 600 million hearing impaired throughout the world, 400 million live in developing countries.

MARKET SIZE• India, with a population of more then 700 million, has

more than 800,000 people who are hearing-impaired.• Approximately 4,000 new cases of sudden deafness

occur each year in the United States.• 18 percent of American adults 45-64 years old• 30 percent of adults 65-74 years old• 47 percent of adults 75 years old or older• There may be more than 700 million people with

hearing loss worldwide 2015• In the next 100 years, hearing impairment is projected

to rise to affect about 30 percent of people; this is because of Europe’s aging population.

• In Finland, 1 of 7 people is dealing with varying degrees of hearing loss.

• Some form of hearing loss affects 1 in 6 Italians.• In Sweden and Denmark, 1 out of 10 people is

suffering from hearing loss.