Unify

A website built to make a step forward in building a more inclusive community.

A website built to break the barriers of sign communication with people who are hard of hearing. A website to sensitise people, especially emergency responders, teachers and parents. People who are hard of hearing have difficulty communicating in emergency situations. We wanted to come up with a way to educate people on how they can help. Unify is an ASL learning website centered around learning the ASL alphabet to help in emergency situations.

• Learn ASL letters and common emergency signs
• Gain knowledge about important gestures to use during emergencies
• Verify with online verification that you're doing it correctly.
• Communicate with people using signs.

Deployed using GCloud App Engine

Features

1. Allows direct communication using ASL by pointing the camera directly at the person.
   
2. A user can login, gain access to signs that they can learn and master.
3. Verify the correctness of the ASL sign online.
4. A progress bar to track your current progress and a record of the symbols mastered.
5. A leaderboard to drive the users!
6. A common words section to enhance users' knowledge daily with 3 new words.
7. A forum to allow people to connect and discuss with other ASL learners and signers of all abilities, thus, building a stronger community.
8. A one-stop platform to allow professionals and NGOs to conduct webinars.
9. A feature to translate any English phrase to American Sign Language.
10. A translator to allows users to select signs to finally get the English Phrase.

Tech-Stack Used

• Node.js
• Express.js
• AstraDB
• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• ejs
• Bootstrap
• JQuery

Third-Party Libraries Used

• Google Teachable Machine
• connect-flash
• fingerpose.js
• bcrypt
• SweetAlert
• body-parser
• axios

Steps to Reproduce

1. Clone the repository
2. Run npm install
3. Run nodemon app.js
4. Open http://localhost:3000/

Deployed Link:

https://unify-asl-app.herokuapp.com/