Summary
- Profile Type
- Business Offer
- POD Reference
- BOIT20231012014
- Term of Validity
- 25 October 2023 - 24 October 2025
- Company's Country
- Italy
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
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The italian company offers a communication service enabling the Deaf to make phone calls, without a third-party intermediary, 24/7.
The company developed solutions for big enterprises, such as Accessible Call Centers for Deaf customers and Work Inclusion solutions.
Recently, the company launched a new real-time transcription service addressed to students who are deaf or have learning disabilities as well as foreign students. - Full Description
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The Italian company developed an application that enables deaf people to make calls, independently and 24/7, to friends and family, call center services and emergency services.
Since 2022, it has developed a new service that addresses the need for deaf, learning-disabled and/or foreign students to be able to participate in classes in a more inclusive manner by taking advantage of real-time transcription of what is said by the lecturer.
Deaf students are generally excluded from a majority of daily lessons for reasons such as: classrooms not being equipped, a lack of technological aids, and/or communication tools.
The aim of the project is to overcome these barriers by providing a service of subtitling and transcription, guaranteeing consistent and complete access to lessons.
In a classroom, the professor utilizes a microphone that automatically sends the audio to the device and utilizes the pre-installed application to transcribe the audio into real-time text for the student.
For e-learning, the pre-installed application integrates subtitles during online lectures, utilizing the same functionalities even in separate locations.
The service, available to date in Italian, English and German, was tested in 2021 at two universities, China University of Hong Kong and Hochschule Hannover in Germany. In 2022, the Italian universities of Sassari and La Sapienza in Rome purchased licenses for their deaf students. - Advantages and Innovations
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The application uses technologies for real-time transcription of speech and optimizes AI models for automatic keyword extraction and generation of summaries.
By providing real-time transcripts and summaries of lessons, the AI assistant can enable deaf students to fully engage with the material in the classroom and improve learning outcomes.
This can have a transformative effect on their educational experience, leading to improved performance and increased access to opportunities. - Stage of Development
- Available for demonstration
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 4: Quality Education
- Goal 10: Reduced Inequality
- IPR status
- IPR applied but not yet granted
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The italian company is looking for partnerships with the following entities:
universities, training centers, institutes, to caption classes in real time ensuring full accessibility for
all students.
The target audience of this solution concerns first of all students with deafness and
other learning-related disabilities, such as ADHD/ADD or with autistic spectrum, dyslexia, etc, but
also foreing students who find themselves having to attend classes in the local language.
An adequate education can help people with disabilities get increased access to employment, health
and other services, and develop a better awareness of their rights. - Type and Size of Partner
- University
- Big company
- R&D Institution
- Other
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 01006003 - Mobile Communications
- 01006015 - VoIP telephony, remote access
- Market keywords
- 01002004 - Other telephone related
- 01006002 - Mobile communications, pagers and cellular radio
- 01006004 - Communications services
- 02007016 - Artificial intelligence related software
- Targeted countries
- All countries