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So the main idea is to create a tool for deaf people and
for people who get distracted while listening to music,
walking outside, in their headphones
and to help them understand their surroundings,
especially for the deaf people who cannot hear anything even with the hearing aids.
So, for example, when they are walking somewhere
and they hear a fire alarm or a train honking
or a car, this band
or their phone will start vibrating
and they will open it and see, oh,
there's a car, and they will try to
maybe escape or move away, or do something like this.
It's like if there's a bomb just blast somewhere
the deaf people or somebody who couldn't hear something
just walking around, then they can't hear
what's happening there. It should be done in real time.
To do it, like, real-time, it's like nightmare
because of the development, of revolution
of the neural networks which can be possible up to some extent
because we can, if you have, like, a bunch
of training data sets which can train for a while to a set,
a fixed set of sounds where we can develop
the model which can detect those sounds very accurately.
Because I'm from Sri Lanka and we can do a lot of
birdwatching there when I'm going around
but I don't know what this bird's name is, who is it,
where like, where
where does it come from and so on. Because then I got an idea
if you have some application where we can get
the sounds of that bird and then identify the sound
if you can correlate it, the sound and the bird's name, and
its information and so on, it'd be a really cool idea.
But the problem is there's still no solution for
do real-time sound detection.
To promote our solution we have social media influencers
who are ready to help us because for every
tenth device we sell we will give one device
for free to a deaf person who cannot afford it.
So, for the deaf people we're going to have
both the band with microphones
four directional microphones, and the app.
And for other people, we're going to have just the app.
For the band we're going to communicate with different
institutions that provide hearing aids for
people with hearing disabilities
and this way we'll reach more people
and there's also an idea to do partnership with
different companies who sell hearing aids and
via them we can get a bigger reach.