Assistive technologies for people with special needs


 

Applications and aids for people with special needs:

Visually impaired applications:
Envision app

Envision translates the visual world into spoken words, helping to live a more independent life every day. By combining the best assistive technology and artificial intelligence, the Envision app can process an image and extract the information the user is looking for. Texts from any surface can be read accurately and quickly, in more than 60 languages.

Link to access the application click here
Hearing impaired applications:
Ava Application
  • The main service provided by the application is the real-time captioning service for any conversation or lecture so that it is mobile, for any student who is deaf or hard of hearing.
  • The application saves the written text on files that can be shared and sent to various programs and applications and the possibility of working on it and benefiting from it later.
  • There is a proofreader feature in the written language to review and send back to the student.
  • The application can be run on the computer using a special wire that connects the mobile device to the computer and the application makes comments for any multimedia that is displayed on the computer.
  • Also, it is possible to use the feature (Ava Web) and display (captions) directly on the screen, and share the text of lectures with the entire class so that everyone can study better and easier.
Link to access the application click here
Hearing impaired applications:
Web Captioner App
  • This free website provides real-time, real-time feedback through your browser
  • Convert spoken speech to writing, text appears within seconds.
  • Captioner works on your computer all you need is a microphone or some other audio input source connected to your computer.
  • It can be used by a faculty member or student with the ability to save comments to a file (Word) for modification and addition to the file.
Link to access the applicationclick here
Last Update
11/24/2021 12:12:50 PM