Text-it-Loud!: Real-Time Captioning and Transcribing App for Inclusive Teaching-Learning of Hearing Impaired

Abstract

These days variety of audio-visual presentation tools are used for teaching the millennial learners. Although such tools improve the active participation of students in teaching-learning, these are least useful in scenarios where hearing impaired students are also part of the same class. Thus, these students may be left out from rest of the class if teaching-learning tools are not made accessible for them. In this work we propose an Android application "Text-it-Loud!" that renders speaker's verbal content as text, in real-time along with the audio-visuals. Although, there are variety of tools available for speech-to-text conversion, our application is novel in the sense that it displays the speaker's voice as caption text in the foreground of any application. e.g. In a presentation the verbal contents of speaker will pop-up on top of slide contents.