Assistive Technology for Hearing-Impaired and Deaf Students Utilizing Augmented Reality

Common universities and colleges worldwide are not equipped with technological techniques that can assist deaf and hearing-impaired students in their education, while few specialized universities are built for deaf students, sign language tutors, or in-class television captioning are included for few majors only. A novel system is proposed and developed to help deaf and hearing-impaired students who are aiming to continue their education outside special centers and communicate normally with the societies that are not sign language educated. By introducing an intelligent software solution developed for affordable augmented reality glasses that will assist students in their educational journey with real-time transcribing, speech emotion recognition, sound indications features, as well as classroom assistive tools.