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Speech translator is a device that helps people with hearing disability to
understand conversations. It works as a real-time subtitle, which translate
speeches to a symbolic language.
This project is based on Raspberry Pi to build prototypes
The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote teaching of basic computer science in schools
For people who can’t hear, words make less sense to
them because without pronunciation, words are just
combination of letters. Compared to recognizing the
shape of one word, pattern has more visual elements
to identify. The brain is good at processing images data.
The disadvantage of existing written language is that the
recognizability is not good when the font size is small.
Symbolic language works like logos which can be recognized
even from far distance. This feature makes it perfect in this
case that the words will be mostly read only.
Image information is processed by the right half of our
brains, which helps remembering much faster compared
to thinking logically with the left brain.