Can Chatbots Be the New Companions to the Physically Impaired?

OLPORTAL.ai
3 min readJul 1, 2020

Chatbots since their inception have progressed immensely with natural language processing. Natural language processing, which takes place through interpretations of texts and images and drawing inferences from complex algorithms, has been embraced and adopted worldwide. For this reason alone, more and more companies are employing chatbots, the integration of which is becoming a significant part of their system.

With the implementation of natural language processing, chatbots have proved to be an effective medium that serves to develop strong connections between them and the customers ensuring the convenience of the customers, simultaneously. Chatbots have also earned a reputation in the field of learning. Moreover, chatbots deal with deep learning because chatbots like Alexa facilitate language learning.

What Further Advancements are Possible?

Apart from setting milestones in the business, e-commerce and IT sectors, artificial intelligence-driven chatbots have also been intervening in health care sectors and medical coding where they help doctors and specialists to know their patients with more accuracy. Likewise, chatbots can also prove to be a suitable companion for those who suffer from visual and speech impairment. AI-powered chatbots can aid to quell the social restrictiveness the impaired people are confined to.

Microsoft stands exemplary in this regard. The company which is mainly known for its inclusivity has a philanthropic take on the empowerment of the specially-abled. Back in 2015, during the Autism Hiring Summit, Microsoft talked about incorporating advancements in their AI-powered chatbots which will help people with speech impediments or people with visual disabilities to communicate with the world. The aim was to design an AI-powered chatbot that could recognize and understand non-standard speech patterns thereby quelling the inconvenience people with speech disabilities face to cope with their surroundings.

Value of Independence

People have become a lot more independent with the advent and advancement of technology. It has helped them to escape their crippled state of dependence. However, this empowerment is not equally distributed in the case of people with speech problems. But this equality becomes possible with the introduction of chatbots which can be suitable companions in understanding them and their environment.

Why OLPORTAL Can be of Effective Assistance?

Apart from the decentralized aspect of the OLPORTAL platform which ensures tight security to its users, the portal is flexible; that is to say can function according to the needs and wants of users. The idea is to integrate OLPORTAL, the neural hybrid network containing chatbots which are known as neuro bots, with communication media that can assist people burdened with speech impediments. Given the fact that neuro bots on OLPORTAL can be customized and even developed by the users, the portal can be upgraded to assist the ones with certain disabilities by the vice of which they fail to sustain in their surrounding environment otherwise. A neurobot not only engage themselves in teaching language skills to their users but also allows itself to learn by the virtue of its malleability. People suffering from speech impairments can have their personalized neuro bots which can assist them to surmount the problems they face in their daily lives thus, making them more independent.

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