A new accessible chat app for the sensory disabled
Blappy is an application that allows communication
between two people with functional diversity.
This way, it would fully allow a blind person
to communicate with a deaf one in a Bluetooth closed environment.
In fact, the name 'Blappy' means
'Bluetooth Application Accessibility'.
In order to use Blappy
you need to have it installed in two terminals,
and it was made for a close communication.
Connect, link to the user
and once you get it linked you can start a conversation.
Text can be sent in two ways:
either by speech recognizer or by keypad.
The application is based on Android Bluetooth technology,
for all connections that are established
when starting a conversation.
We have also integrated existing technologies on Android
such as speech synthesis,
automatic speech recognition and automatic translation.
Blappy was born as a technological innovation product
developed at the UC3M Science Park,
in particular at the audiovisual laboratories
of the Centro de Discapacidad y Dependencia,
where CESyA works.
It is an example of technology transfer
from a public company to social needs.
The application is only available for Android devices,
so it is on the Play Store platform,
but we are currently initiating the development
for the iOS platform.
It is developed in four languages,
although the translation module integrated into it
uses all the languages which are on Google Translate.
So we are meeting the paradigm
of a design accessible to everyone, a design for everyone.
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