SUNVA
SUNVA
An AI-Powered Accessibility Solution
for India's Deaf Community
An AI-Powered Accessibility Solution
for India's Deaf Community
An AI-Powered Accessibility Solution
for India's Deaf Community
What Sunva is About
Project Overview
Sunva AI is an AI-driven communication tool designed to enhance accessibility for the deaf community in India, particularly for those within the oral spectrum of deafness. Sunva addresses communication challenges by leveraging speech recognition, natural language processing, and text-to-speech technologies to provide intelligent live transcriptions and text simplification capabilities.
Goals
To enable deaf individuals to participate more fully in conversations, educational settings, and professional environments. To reduce cognitive fatigue and enable natural interactions, thereby facilitating social, educational, and professional inclusion.
Mission Statement
To provide flexible and personalised solutions to promote communication equity, fostering a more inclusive society where communication is not a barrier to participation.
What Sunva is About
Project Overview
Project Overview
Sunva AI is an AI-driven communication tool designed to enhance accessibility for the deaf community in India, particularly for those within the oral spectrum of deafness. Sunva addresses communication challenges by leveraging speech recognition, natural language processing, and text-to-speech technologies to provide intelligent live transcriptions and text simplification capabilities.
Sunva AI is an AI-driven communication tool designed to enhance accessibility for the deaf community in India, particularly for those within the oral spectrum of deafness. Sunva addresses communication challenges by leveraging speech recognition, natural language processing, and text-to-speech technologies to provide intelligent live transcriptions and text simplification capabilities.
Goals
Goals
To enable deaf individuals to participate more fully in conversations, educational settings, and professional environments. To reduce cognitive fatigue and enable natural interactions, thereby facilitating social, educational, and professional inclusion.
Mission Statement
Mission Statement
To provide flexible and personalised solutions to promote communication equity, fostering a more inclusive society where communication is not a barrier to participation.
How Sunva Works
How Sunva Works
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Here are the processes we follow
Here are the processes we follow
Real-Time Speech-to-Text Conversion
Real-Time Speech-to-Text Conversion
Real-Time Speech-to-Text Conversion
Sunva actively listens and transcribes spoken words into text.
Sunva actively listens and transcribes spoken words into text.
Sunva actively listens and transcribes spoken words into text.
Contextual Transcription Simplification and Highlighting
Contextual Transcription
Simplification and Highlighting
Contextual Transcription Simplification and Highlighting
Transcription Simplification:
Casual elements within the real-time transcriptions are simplified to enhance readability and comprehension.
Key Point Highlighting:
In complex conversations, crucial sentences are highlighted while preserving the original context, ensuring clarity for deaf individuals.
Transcription Simplification:
Casual elements within the real-time transcriptions are simplified to enhance readability and comprehension.
Key Point Highlighting:
In complex conversations, crucial sentences are highlighted while preserving the original context, ensuring clarity for deaf individuals.
Transcription Simplification:
Casual elements within the real-time transcriptions are simplified to enhance readability and comprehension.
Key Point Highlighting:
In complex conversations, crucial sentences are highlighted while preserving the original context, ensuring clarity for deaf individuals.
Caption Display
Caption Display
Caption Display
The clear text is displayed as captions on the screen as the words are spoken.
The clear text is displayed as captions on the screen as the words are spoken.
The clear text is displayed as captions on the screen as the words are spoken.
Typed Response and Error Check
Typed Response and Error Check
Typed Response and Error Check
A deaf person can type their response, and Sunva checks for any errors.
A deaf person can type their response, and Sunva checks for any errors.
A deaf person can type their response, and Sunva checks for any errors.
Text-to-Speech Output
Text-to-Speech Output
Text-to-Speech Output
Sunva reads the typed response aloud.
Sunva reads the typed response aloud.
Sunva reads the typed response aloud.
Learn about Sunva Use-Cases
Learn about Sunva Use-Cases
Learn about Sunva Use-Cases
Sunva is involved in the following use-cases
Sunva Real-Time Transcription in Classrooms
Sunva Real-Time Transcription in Classrooms
Sunva Real-Time Transcription in Classrooms
Deaf students in the classroom face significant challenges in listening to lectures, taking notes and overall understanding of what’s going on in the classroom. Schools and colleges can leverage the intelligent live transcription capability of Sunva AI to help the deaf students to attend classes.
Deaf students with non-standard speech can ask their doubts and answer teacher's questions using Sunva’s AI voices. They can type what’s in their mind and Sunva AI will speak it aloud for them.
Deaf students in the classroom face significant challenges in listening to lectures, taking notes and overall understanding of what’s going on in the classroom. Schools and colleges can leverage the intelligent live transcription capability of Sunva AI to help the deaf students to attend classes.
Deaf students with non-standard speech can ask their doubts and answer teacher's questions using Sunva’s AI voices. They can type what’s in their mind and Sunva AI will speak it aloud for them.
Deaf students in the classroom face significant challenges in listening to lectures, taking notes and overall understanding of what’s going on in the classroom. Schools and colleges can leverage the intelligent live transcription capability of Sunva AI to help the deaf students to attend classes.
Deaf students with non-standard speech can ask their doubts and answer teacher's questions using Sunva’s AI voices. They can type what’s in their mind and Sunva AI will speak it aloud for them.
Sunva TTS in a Bank
Sunva TTS in a Bank
Sunva TTS in a Bank
Deaf people in a bank can use Sunva AI’s text to speech capabilities to type in their queries and the AI voice will ask the queries for them.
They don’t have to worry about typing the full sentences. The predictive intelligence will complete their sentences and ask it aloud using TTS.
Deaf people in a bank can use Sunva AI’s text to speech capabilities to type in their queries and the AI voice will ask the queries for them.
They don’t have to worry about typing the full sentences. The predictive intelligence will complete their sentences and ask it aloud using TTS.
Deaf people in a bank can use Sunva AI’s text to speech capabilities to type in their queries and the AI voice will ask the queries for them.
They don’t have to worry about typing the full sentences. The predictive intelligence will complete their sentences and ask it aloud using TTS.
Sunva AI for Attending Interviews
Sunva AI for Attending Interviews
Sunva AI for Attending Interviews
If deaf people can use Sunva AI during interviews they will be able to understand the questions asked by the interviewer and easily respond back using Sunva AI’s voices.
A lot of deaf people have issues understanding language. But this doesn’t mean they are skilled to do a job. They can demonstrate their domain knowledge and skillsets with the help of simplified live captions and text to speech interface of Sunva.
If deaf people can use Sunva AI during interviews they will be able to understand the questions asked by the interviewer and easily respond back using Sunva AI’s voices.
A lot of deaf people have issues understanding language. But this doesn’t mean they are skilled to do a job. They can demonstrate their domain knowledge and skillsets with the help of simplified live captions and text to speech interface of Sunva.
If deaf people can use Sunva AI during interviews they will be able to understand the questions asked by the interviewer and easily respond back using Sunva AI’s voices.
A lot of deaf people have issues understanding language. But this doesn’t mean they are skilled to do a job. They can demonstrate their domain knowledge and skillsets with the help of simplified live captions and text to speech interface of Sunva.
Sunva AI in Disaster Communication
Sunva AI in Disaster Communication
Sunva AI in Disaster Communication
Sunva AI can be a valuable tool for communication with deaf individuals during disaster management by providing real-time transcription of spoken information from emergency responders, with the ability to highlight key details and summarise less important content.
Sunva AI can be a valuable tool for communication with deaf individuals during disaster management by providing real-time transcription of spoken information from emergency responders, with the ability to highlight key details and summarise less important content.
Sunva AI can be a valuable tool for communication with deaf individuals during disaster management by providing real-time transcription of spoken information from emergency responders, with the ability to highlight key details and summarise less important content.
Meet the Sunva Team
Meet the Sunva Team
Shape the Future of Accessibility
Shape the Future of Accessibility
Your insights drive innovation—help us make Sunva better for everyone.
Sunva AI is open-source under the MIT license. Contribute to the project on GitHub.
Sunva AI is open-source under the MIT license.
Contribute to the project on GitHub.
Sunva AI is open-source under the MIT license. Contribute to the project on GitHub.
Contribute With Us
We are looking for experts in speech models and developers in voice and audio-based frontend and backend engineering to help take Sunva to production.
We are looking for experts in speech models and developers in voice and audio-based frontend and backend engineering to help take Sunva to production.
Volunteer With Us
Are you an expert in accessibility research ? Join us for leading our user research to understand the needs of deaf community in India and building the use cases.
Are you an expert in accessibility research ?
Join us for leading our user research to understand the needs of deaf community in India and building the use cases.
Are you an expert in accessibility research ? Join us for leading our user research to understand the needs of deaf community in India and building the use cases.
Research With Us
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People+ai is an EkStep Foundation initiative. Our work is designed around the belief that technology, especially ai, will cause paradigm shifts that can help India & its people reach their potential.
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People+ai is an EkStep Foundation initiative. Our work is designed around the belief that technology, especially ai, will cause paradigm shifts that can help India & its people reach their potential.
Join the Community
People+ai is an EkStep Foundation initiative. Our work is designed around the belief that technology, especially ai, will cause paradigm shifts that can help India & its people reach their potential.