Aplicação de auxílio de deficientes auditivos em sala de aula

Abstract

The inclusion of people with disabilities in society has been exponentially targeted in recent years in Brazil, especially in the academic area, as the educational development of the population as a whole is considered essential. So, the question arises: How could a web application facilitate the inclusion of students with hearing loss in the educational environment? The realization of this research is based on the degree of importance that the inclusion of the hearing impaired has in the educational and social contexts, in addition to directly implying in the lives and future of these people, so that any form of assistance and social collaboration makes these people individuals, who are in a situation of vulnerability, are welcome and feel included in all environments, starting from the academic environment. This work resulted in the development of a web application for voice translation in LIBRAS, where it was necessary to study the technologies: Flutter for speech recognition, joining of videos in sequence and communication with API's, NLTK and SpaCy for PLN, Django and Django Rest Framework for the creation of API's and connection of the PLN with the database where the videos of the gestures would be stored. Based on the results obtained, it is possible to conclude that the application was successful in relation to its purpose of real-time voice-to-text translation. Although there were some problems during the testing phase, in short, it can be said that the application can perform translations with quality and can be continuously improved with the help of professionals in the field and increasing knowledge of technologies and LIBRAS. It is interesting to make it clear that the application is not capable of replacing the interpreter