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    Intelligent mobile assistant for hearing impairers to interact with the society in Sinhala language
    (IEEE, 2017-12-06) Perera, Y; Jayalath, N; Tissera, S; Bandara, o; Thelijjagoda, S
    A language is a way of words or signs that people use to share feelings and ideas with each other. In view of the society there is an issue in communication among hearing impaired people and hearing people. Most of the hearing people have no idea about the sign languages and they are not having any desire to learn sign language. Thus, typically hearing impairers are used to be isolated. When considering about all the solutions there is an absence of a Sinhala application with Sinhala sign language. Sinhala is the native language of the Sinhalese people. Sinhala is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 20 million. Sinhalese is also spoken as a second language by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, totaling about four million. Since most of the solutions are desktop applications, hearing impairers feel so uncomfortable. In the modern era where mobile technology plays a superior role in day to day life, Project “Sanwadha” is an intelligent assistant for the hearing-impaired people for communication. The proposed application is under cross platform mobile development where users can reach the solution widely. The core of the Project “Sanwadha” is Instant Messaging (IM) chat. Here the application will get the text from the ordinary person in Sinhala language and it converts to Sinhala sign language. The message will be directing to hearing impaired person in a format of GIF. 2D model can be used by the User (Hearing impaired) to grasp the idea by creating the sign as they wish. That sign would be altering in to either Text or Voice to interact with the society. Hearing people also can cooperate with the hearing impairers with the voice recognition mechanism. This solution would come up with an intelligent application where hearing impairers makes empower in the society through communication. Reaching Sri Lankan deaf community is another foremost objective of this project. This hopes to narrow digital divide that between enabled and hearing- impaired users. The significance of this proposed application is that it allows hearing-impaired individuals to communicate when they are long distance apart. This application would bridge the gap between hearing impairers with the society.
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    Project Nethra-an intelligent assistant for the visually disabled to interact with internet services
    (IEEE, 2015-12-18) Weeratunga, A. M; Jayawardana, S. A. U; Hasindu, P. M. A. K; Prashan, W. P. M; Thelijjagoda, S
    In the modern era where computers play a prominent role in day to day life, visually disabled users have found it challenging to keep up with the modern advancements in computers and internet usage forming a `digital divide'. Project Nethra is an intelligent virtual assistant for the visually disabled, which provides a voice based medium for visually disabled users. It allows the target users to interact with computers and internet based services with a wide array of functionality based on various internet services and social media. With Nethra, tasks will be done for the user instead of just returning search results. Project Nethra will listen and detect what the user says and responds to user's requests in a friendly, effective manner via voice in a manner of a conversation. There are four main components of the system; the voice recognition module, the natural language processing module, conversational agent and the content extraction module. This is a much faster and interactive solution than regular assistive software for the visually disabled. The existing screen reader software are not suitable for accessing World Wide Web because of the minimum support they provide for web content and the lack of voice recognition. The Virtual Assistant software available in the market are not specifically catered for visually disabled. All the mainstream solutions were analyzed and compared with project Nethra in order to substantiate that the proposed solution is the most optimal and would bridge the `digital divide' that exists between sighted and visually disabled users.