Smart Glass for Awareness of Important Sound to People with Hearing Disability

Abstract

People with hearing disability find it difficult to establish a communication specially because most of the communication mediums that people naturally use are vocal. Hearing impaired people sometimes risk their life in cases like busy roads or run by high speed vehicles. Furthermore, they are unable to hear people calling them. Even if they understand that they are being called or they hear any sudden noise, they can't figure out the direction of the sound which is out of their regular vision. Recent technologies can be used to help them. In this paper we propose a smart glass that will enable them to understand any sudden sound by separating the noise using active noise cancellation and recognize the sound by speech recognition, notify that they are being called and provide them the direction of sound using binaural cue. This glass can also be used for old people or people with lower hearing ability. Which can be integrated with modern commercial smart glasses for better performance and lower price.