Preliminary Study of Articulation Training Supporting System for the Hearing Impaired using Automated Lip Shape Recognition

Many hearing-impaired persons cannot say a word, generally, because they have not had a chance to get the learning for saying by the absence of the ability for hearing. But, the ability for hearing is thoroughly different from the ability for saying. I.e., if the hearing impaired wants to say and tries to say repeatedly, he/she can speak well just like non-hearing impaired persons. This process is called as articulation training and needs many expertise for training all the hearing impaired in Korea. In addition, this process requires repetitive and long time training but the number of expertise is absolutely insufficient. In this paper, a system which can assist the articulation training for the hearing impaired was suggested to help the insufficient number of the articulation training supporters.