Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Can we make a Mobile phone for deaf?

Yesterday i met my doctor and he was telling me about his experience with his neighbour... His neighbour never uses a mobile because for a simple reason that he is could not speak or hear... One fine day he did not return home on time... His family members were terrified.They waited ..(as they could do only that for the time being) with lots of hope and prayers... At last my doctor took his car and went in search of him... luckily he found him.. When asked about the reason for his delay he told that his bus broke down on the way and he was looted.. so with no money in hand the only option he could think at that moment was to walk... and he did that...

That really made me think... Being Engineers, are we not responsible to bring the technology available down to the public and needy? Of course many ideas come up, but almost all of them end up in our labs when the project exhibition gets over...

Big companies who manufacture mobile phones and who provide networks for communication must join hands to make things possible and feasible..A mobile phone with simple speech to text conversion software and image to voice conversion software is sufficient to achieve this...
To my knowledge there are two possibilities to do it...
  1. A Special Person communicating with an ordinary person..

In this case the ordinary person speaks with his phone. It must been seen that a special line is dedicated... The speech signal is converted into text and is transmitted to the person.The reply from the person (obviously in sign language)is captured with a camera and is sent.This video is processed and is converted into speech signal and could be transmitted to the person on the other end of the line...

2. A Special Person communicating with another special person.

In this case ,the video is converted into text on both sides.

Now that seems so simple isn't it?.. and if the conversion process are taken up by the big boys like BSNL,AIRTEL,AIRCEL etc.. then the investment that the person have to make is just a camera mobile that is capable of sending videos which is very economical...

now tel me..Can we make a mobile phone for deaf? do give yr comments..

5 comments:

Unknown said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Unknown said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Jayashri said...

hey mami,
welcome to the world of blogging!! And you have given a good start with technical related post. Keep it up!! Happy that i'm the first to comment on your blog. Definitely we should get the technology useful for the common people and should be beneficial to the society.. keep posting regularly...kudos!

Unknown said...

This is indeed a very innovative and refreshing idea, which undoubtedly is going change the lifes of people who require special need.

Brand H said...

hey..its a great start for a blogger..
n de idea looks pretty creative n so very useful..
great way to open ur account..
keep bloggin..
take care..
-Hari