MuteTrans: A communication medium for deaf

People who are deaf or hard-of-hearing may have challenges communicating with others via spoken words and may have challenges being aware of audio events in their environments. This is especially true in public places, which may not have accessible ways of communicating announcements and other audio events. In this paper, the design and evolution of a mobile sound transcription tool for the deaf and hard-of-hearing is elaborated. Transcriptions include dialog and descriptions of environmental sounds. The transcriber is a multilingual transcriber who listens to the audio and sends the converted text message to the server, the server then using the IP address of the user sends it to the user. If the user is not logged into the server then the message is stored in the server database and sent when the user logs in.