"Not There Yet": Feasibility and Challenges of Mobile Sound Recognition to Support Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People
Jeremy Zhengqi Huang, Hriday Chhabria, Dhruv Jain · 2023 · Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)
This paper presents the first longitudinal field study of a mobile sound recognition system used by Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people in their daily lives. The researchers deployed SoundWatch, a smartwatch-based app that uses a deep learning model (Google YAMNet…
deaf and hard of hearing · sound recognition · wearable technology · smartwatch · assistive technology