Accessibility

[BrianMonclus]

Look into possible solutions/implementations for Deaf and Hard of Hearing student accessibility

• Look into Tiger Chat as an option
• firebase, and Microsoft/Google text to speech are alternatives

[mohdfareed]

I opened #11 to add the code for speech recognition and keep this issue open for discussions.

[mohdfareed]

I tried a free version of Google's API and it is too slow for live transcription. I still want to try with different engines, like Microsofts, and look at different implementations.

Until now I've found the following that I can use as references:

• https://github.com/davabase/whisper_real_time
• https://www.assemblyai.com
• https://github.com/davabase/transcriber_app

[mohdfareed]

From phase 4 review: provide a QR code that can be scanned on phones to display the live transcription on student's devices.

The service can either be hosted locally (RIT network) or over the internet; further research is required.

This will involve refactoring the transcription service to support streaming the transcription to multiple clients.

Issue #23 implements the backend support for this

[mohdfareed]

At the moment this issue has the following tasks left:

• [x] Look into Tiger Chat as an option
• [x] Create page designated for receiving transcripts
• [ ] Add QR code to access transcription page