Improvement of PC Hearing Support System: The Use of One-USB-OS
Manabu Ishihara, Yuichi ONO, Mitsuomi Ideo, Tomokazu Sato · 2014
Sign language interpretation and PC captioning are commonly used as a means of assisting hearing impaired people to get information. A noise in the classroom is bigger than is expected, so it became a problem for those with hearing impairments, who had extra difficulty in listening in the classroom. Our earlier paper reported that we developed a supporting system of nursing care for the hearing disabled people, using a tablet PC and school LAN. This system also utilizes speech transmission on wireless LAN. Then, they can use their own smartphones and mobile games devices. The data showed its usefulness as a result of our monosyllabic intelligibility test. In the current project, we developed our earlier system into a new software-based system; the one-usb-os system. This new system enables users to run a USB start if they have a PC and to operate our proposed PC hearing support system. This paper reports the results of our measurement and describes acoustic characteristics observed in the actual noisy classroom environment.