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Supervisor: Dr. ElSayed Eissa Hemayed. 2/3/2010. Team Members. Marwa Ibrahim Lamey . Mayada Ibrahim Aly . Mona Sherif Ahmed. Suad Mohamed Barakat. 2/3/2010. Agenda. Introduction. Project Overview. Tools. Time Plan. 2/3/2010. Intro. Overview. Introduction. Tools.
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Supervisor: Dr. ElSayedEissaHemayed 2/3/2010
Team Members • Marwa Ibrahim Lamey. • Mayada Ibrahim Aly. • Mona Sherif Ahmed. • Suad Mohamed Barakat. 2/3/2010
Agenda • Introduction • Project Overview • Tools • Time Plan 2/3/2010
Intro. Overview • Introduction Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
Background Yasser Albehiry, “5 million deaf looking for someone to speak in their behalf”, October Magazine, No 1733, Jan 10th, 2010 (in Arabic). • Fact: There exists 5 million deaf persons in Egypt • Can’t we help them interacting with the community!??... Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
Problem definition • Hearing children can be taught many lessons and morals through stories. What about deaf children? Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
This is not always the picture Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan Al Amal School- Resala Charity 2/3/2010
Intro. Overview • Project Overview Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
Our Scope • Our prototype is to translate a category of children stories to the sign language in real time • Goal: To minimize the gap between hearing parents or teachers and deaf children Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
Description • Input: Arabic story speech signal • Output: A 3D character performing the sign language • Type: Desktop Application Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
Market Survey • iCommunicator • IBM SiSi • King Fahd University Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
SIGNlator Uniqueness • Arabic speech recognition • Start from speech and end up with sign language Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
SIGNlator Features • Translation of Arabic speech to sign language in real time. • Translation of Arabic text to sign language. • Learning mode. Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
Block Diagram Intro. Text to Sign language القاموس الاشاري العربي للصم Overview Recognizer Graphics module Tools Time Plan Controller 2/3/2010
Automatic Speech Recognition-Architecture Recognizer Intro. Language Model Recognizer Overview Feature Extraction • Search Audio Words Tools Time Plan Acoustic Model Dictionary
Block Diagram Intro. Text to Sign language القاموس الاشاري العربي للصم Overview Recognizer Graphics module Tools Time Plan Controller 2/3/2010
Challenges • Tackling a new field • Phonemes of Arabic language. • Prepare the training set. Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
Future Work • Change the program type to be mobile application. • Integrate with “Sound of Signs “Project Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan 2/3/2010
Tools • Recognizer : • Text to Sign language: • C# using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 • SQL Server 2005 • Graphics module: • GUI: Intro. HTK Overview Tools Quest3D 4.0 Time Plan • Expression Studio 2 ( Blend) 2/3/2010
Time Plan Brain Storming Working Period 84 days Market Research Idle period 25 d Design 34d Mid-Terms 6d Design 18d Finals 8/7/09 30/9/09 38days 4 Phases 1/10/09 26/10/09 43days Mid-Terms 27/10/09 30/11/09 16d 4 Phases 5/12/09 11/12/09 28 d Finals 12/12/09 30/12/09 51 days Testing 1/1/10 8/2/10 7d Documentation 9/2/10 24/3/10 6d 25/3/10 10/4/10 11/4/2010 9/5/2010 10/5/10 30/6/10 4 Phases: Implementation Integration Testing Documentation 1/7/10 8/7/09 9/7/10 15/7/10 2/3/2010
Sponsors agile solutions, real result 2/3/2010
Thank you T H A N K Y O U 2/3/2010
ASR Categories • Unlimited words can be recognized if added to the dictionary. • Less accurate but still acceptable accuracy • Very high accuracy • Maximum 150 words. Intro. Overview Tools Time Plan Our Choice!!
Causes of deafness • 9.6% Pregnancy-Related causes • 8.4% Post-Natal causes • 28% Genetic causes • 54% Unknown causes Not necessary to be born for deaf parents