英文摘要 |
Sounds are intricately connected with our life. Human not only emits sounds but also transmits and obtains relevant information from sounds. However, high-decibel sounds, especially the sounds of transportation modes, can easily damage hearing and threaten health.The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there were 464 million hearing-impaired people in the world in 2018. Response to a huge and rapidly growing hearing-impaired population, smart transportation should integrate environmental sounds and apply sound technology to provide a diversified notification system to improve the difficulties that hearing-impaired people not receiving traffic service notification sounds and warning sounds adequately and reduce the impacts of traffic noise on the environment.This article introduces sound technology to explain its principles and operations in detection, positioning, and recognition, and then addresses how sound technology could be applied to smart transportation. The analysis is based on the nine main service architectures of the Intelligent Transportation System (IMS). We discuss the applications of sound technology into hearing-impaired by deeper understanding of its population profile and site survey about sound and text notifications at Taipei MRT station. We introduce a ''Bunny Hear'' APP to detect and recognition environmental sounds for hearing-impaired and propose a vision of sound technology in smart transportation. |