iSuara 守语
of PwDs are in the civil services, compared to the supposed 1% national quota.
Sources: Utah Public Radio (2023), National Association of the Deaf, & The Star Malaysia (2024)
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Allows them to interrupt and participate in live lectures.
Allows deaf professionals to communicate instantly for any meeting.
Direct communication between doctor and patient.
specialized in Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia.
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Worldwide with hearing loss (WHO estimate)
Belong to signing deaf communities (WFD)
There is no official count of the number of deaf people in the world. Estimates from the World Health Organisation mention that there are around 430 million deaf persons worldwide. This includes all people with a hearing loss, however small. The WFD estimates more than 70 million deaf people belong to signing deaf communities. We are working to develop reliable data on this issue.
A schoolboy with a cochlear implant listens to his teacher during lessons at a school for the hearing impaired in Germany.
Grounds Problem Statement 1: Severe academic & communicative isolation without accessible real-time translation.
85% of deaf children attend mainstream public schools and many deaf advocates will say this is a good thing. Deafness is, after all, part of our society and deaf children need to be part of the world. But good intentions and good educational practices are two different things. And many deaf children don't receive the same quality of education as their hearing classmates.
Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Dr Zaliha Mustafa addressing the Dewan Rakyat with real-time sign language interpretation (BIM) in Parliament.
Representation in Malaysia's public sector.
Target civil service quota for OKU.
The public sector has yet to fill 1% of its positions with persons with disabilities (OKU), said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) Dr Zaliha Mustafa. While there was an increasing trend in OKU civil service employment, the participation rate remains at approximately 0.3%, highlighting the urgent necessity for accessible assistive communication technologies like iSuara to break workplace barriers.
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"My hand sign is not detected when I signed just a bit faster"
"When I stand a bit further, the app unable to detect my hand sign"
"This app have a great use of gemini api to rearrange the sentence format"
"The real-time translation is quite fast... The sentence generation is very natural."
"The latency is quiet high, the detection occurs after a few seconds the sign is done"
"The app sometimes misintepret sign that looks similar like 'Kakak' to 'Abang'"
"This app definitely will benefit the DHH community but the dictionary is still strictly limited"
"Sometimes it cannot catch up when I sign a bit faster"