HoloSound

Quick Info

Project Date Jan. 1, 2020 - Present
Sponsors: NSF Microsoft Google UW Reality Lab
Keywords: real-time captioning, sound awareness, deaf and hard of hearing

News

Dhruv Jain Passes General Exam

Dec 11, 2020 | Jon

It's my pleasure to announce that Dhruv Jain passed his General Exam entitled Sound Sensing & Feedback Techniques for d/Deaf & Hard of Hearing Users: A Dissertation Proposal. His dissertation work was thoughtfully presented, well rehearsed, and even included two live demos (of HomeSound and of SoundWatch). Congrats DJ! Thanks also to the wonderful committee, including co-chair Professor Findlater and fellow committee members Professors Mankoff, Ladner, Wobbrock, and Bigham—literally an all-star cast of HCI+accessibility experts. You can download the slides here or watch the whole thing on YouTube! A few screenshots of the talk (all but the presenter + interpreters had video off):

About

HoloSound: Combining Speech and Sound Identification for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Users on a Head-mounted Display

Head-mounted displays can provide private and glanceable speech and sound feedback to deaf and hard of hearing people, yet prior systems have largely focused on speech transcription. We introduce HoloSound, a HoloLens-based augmented reality (AR) prototype that uses deep learning to classify and visualize sound identity and location in addition to providing speech transcription.