About StorySign
As a reading app missioned to enhance the story time of deaf children, StorySign can translate selected children's books into sign language which enables deaf children and their family to enjoy reading together. Up to now, StorySign has received over 50,000 lifetime downloads.
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What challenges are deaf children facing？
Reading based on phonics is one of the main learning methods for young beginners to acquire new knowledge. Given the mainstream acoustic education system, lack of hearings has generated a gulf between deaf children and their peers. In the UK, 98% of them will leave school functionally illiterate. Besides, 90% deaf children are born to hearing parents, most of whom barely understand sign language, which means it's never been easy for them to share the joy of family reading or family education.
Lack of sign language teachers: Currently, the number of skilled sign language teachers is far from satisfying the needs of massive deaf children.
Parents barely understand sign language: 90% deaf children's parents have normal hearing and barely understand sign language.
Shortage of education resources: Mainstream education theories, methods and material are based on phonetic systems, while deaf children have limited resources to learn.
Cutting-edge AI tech ignites hopes for deaf education
Cooperated with European Union for the Deaf, Penguin, and Aardman, HUAWEI has developed StorySign, a free reading App with sign language translation, so that smart phones can be an excellent reading partner for deaf children. StorySign is capable of recognizing and translating 7 languages, thus, users can select preferred languages accordingly. The app is handy and user-friendly: Open the app and hold the phone up to book to use OCR output to display the signed version of the text, after which the words can be translated by a simple click on the screen.
Bitmap enhancement: With HiAI Document Correction/Detection API, StorySign manages to enhance the detected text on the screen, ensuring a more accurate and responsive text recognition.
OCR of 7 languages: General Text Recognition API of HiAI Engine powers StorySign to recognize multiple languages so as to realize the sign language translation. Users can select their preferred languages in the app, including English, French, Italian and more
Changes we have made…
With StorySign, 32 million deaf children and their family are now allowed to enjoy reading and learning together at any time, seeing a technology innovation in deaf education.
As for the users, StorySign has successfully brought hopes to deaf children struggling in reading and learning, introducing joyful story time to millions of families.
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Huawei's growth in the smartphone and mobile app market is helping ClasseViva reach almost three million users every month
A leading educational app available on AppGallery is using Huawei Mobile Service(HMS)'s innovative software capabilities and Huawei's quality hardware to help schools and teachers deliver a unique schooling experience and deliver quality remote learning for students and their families.
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ClasseViva is a cloud-based learning platform developed by one of Italy’s top education companies, Gruppo Spaggiari Parma. Gruppo Spaggiari Parma CEO Riccardo Agostini said the app has proved particularly useful in recent months as its enabled schools throughout Italy to deliver effective remote learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The Covid-19 situation has posed unique challenges for teachers and students, and listing ClasseViva on AppGallery has helped us minimise disruption to our users by ensuring they have access to quality remote learning tools.”
Used widely throughout the school community in Italy, the app is split between three platforms – ClasseViva Student, ClasseViva Family, and ClasseViva Teacher. Currently, the app is being used 1.7 million times every day by AppGallery users, with an average daily user involvement of over 5 minutes.
Integrating ClasseViva with HMS innovative capabilities also helped the company develop a superior learning tool and offer the best possible user experience for the growing number of AppGallery users.
“Huawei’s Analytics Kit provides useful insights and real-time data on user behaviour and monitors app performance. This allows us to better analyse how teachers, students, and families are using the app, and meet teachers’ and students’ needs in a constantly evolving learning environment,” Agostini said.
Other kits integrated on ClasseViva include the Push Kit, which enables instant messaging about updates and notifications; Huawei’s crash analysis service, which enables app makers to monitor the quality of their app in real time; and the Scan Kit, which enables absences to be registered and approved through the app by scanning unique QR codes.
“Furthermore, Huawei helped facilitate this remote learning by guaranteeing fast delivery of their Huawei T3 and T5 tablets to help us maximise the amount of teachers and we could reach.”said. Agostini.
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The Chinese mobile market is recognized as the largest in the world for a good reason. According to the Statistical Report on Internet Development in China (April 2020) in CNNIC, the number of mobile Internet users was 897 million in March 2020. And App Annie reports that revenue in the Chinese mainland approached US$50 billion, up by 190% over the past three years.
Three barriers to entry the Chinese market
There are three major barriers to entry into the Chinese mobile market that overseas developers struggle to overcome.
First, releasing any software into the Chinese market forces businesses to overcome significant legal hurdles to both operate legally in the Chinese market and publish a product or service legally. For example, games require copyrights and version numbers, and some application categories, such as finance, media, and entertainment, Sports and health are difficult to obtain qualifications.
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Secondly, any mobile companies that do overcome the legal challenges must thoroughly localize their services or products to have any chance of succeeding. Unlike in Europe, where localizing from France to Germany would mostly be left in the hands of translators, localizing for China will include changing business models, linking apps and games with China’s leading social media platforms, and even changing the art or backstory of video game characters to adapt to the market, as evidenced in the mega-hit “Arena of Valor,” which has struggled to replicate its success in China elsewhere.
Finally, developers need to overcome the distribution of mobile apps to ensure that their apps or games actually reach consumers. Due to the fragmented nature of the China mobile market, there are more than 400 app stores in China's Android market to provide services to consumers, making it more difficult for overseas developers to implement advertising strategies in China. In addition, China’s social networking environment is unique. As the largest social networking network in China, WeChat is more a part of the digital life of Chinese users than a chat application. As a result, mobile app and game developers entering the Chinese market must learn to navigate a unique social and, by extension, advertising landscape.
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How to leap over the barriers
So the question that most developers reading this will have is a simple one: Can the barriers above be overcome and how can they be leaped over?
The answer is that there is no clear answer due to so many factors. For example, China's legal situation is unlikely to change significantly in the near future, and developers need to work with local partners to help them pass the legal challenge.
Similarly, localization will prove challenging to overcome. There are some technological solutions that could help deal with the problems in the market. Dynamic in-app purchase pricing, third-party mobile payment systems, and adaptive advertising services can help companies adapt their business models for the local market. But text and character localization will remain something that requires expert help.
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Furthermore, it is becoming easier to deal with China’s fragmented ecosystem with the help of technology because, ironically, that fragmentation allows technical solutions to avoid many of the problems posed to marketers. Meanwhile, there’s another advertising solution that allows businesses to leverage WeChat to generate installs by pointing users to “mini-programs” contained in-app. Acting essentially as streamlined versions of main apps or games, being able to advertise mini-programs allows users to try before they install, leveraging China’s unique social market for the benefit of advertisers.
Of course, the challenge doesn’t end there. Developers will still need local marketing experts to help them run social channels in China, optimize local marketing copywriting, and make the most of local major holidays such as Spring Festival and Double 11 to succeed.
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We believe that overseas developers who wish to launch products and services in the Chinese market need the help of local marketing experts to better cope with China's complex legal, distribution, and cultural environment. Huawei will provide services for developers outside China, including consulting services for the Chinese market, qualification consulting services, and Huawei AppGallery release. We have professional teams to help you overcome the difficulties, if you encounter any of the above barriers, please contact us via email: [email protected]
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Modern transportation networks connect all corners of China, and high-speed rail has become the preferred choice for those planning long-distance family visits or business trips. As such, travelers have begun to expect more from basic travel services.
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"Gaotie Guanjia serves as a helpful travel assistant, and has been designed to meet the diversified demands of users. We aim to deliver one-stop personalized travel services capable of satisfying a wide range of scenarios." said Shi Cewei, vice president of Gaotie Guanjia.
Shi Cewei: Vice president of Gaotie Guanjia and Flight Master
Adhering to this vision, Gaotie Guanjia focuses on app innovation. When the company was expanding the product portfolio, Gaotie Guanjia encountered some new challenges. "We found that users often encountered problems during sign-in." said Shi, "They need to enter their user name, password, and verification code every time they sign in, and this has a negative impact on their experience." As a steadily increasing number of users is key to success, Gaotie Guanjia needs to make the sign-in process as smooth as possible before they can deliver more qualified services and ensure a steady growth in the user base. Flight Master, an app developed by the same company, has gained many loyal users thanks to its spectacular user experience and humanized functions. "If we leverage the user base from Flight Master, we can help both new and existing users of these two apps enjoy the travel services we provide for them. This will bolster our product development." said Shi.
On Huawei phones, users can enjoy different platform versions of Gaotie Guanjia.
Fortunately for Gaotie Guanjia, Huawei launched Keyring, an innovative service which helped solve the issue properly. With Keyring integrated into Gaotie Guanjia, user credentials are encrypted and stored on their own device. Whenever the user opens Gaotie Guanjia, they simply use the device's biometric verification for automatic sign-in instead of having to enter their user name and password each time. Keyring can also securely store user credentials on the cloud, so if a user changes their device, Keyring can back up their credentials from the cloud to the new device. "HMS Core helps us streamline the account sign-in process and improve our app ecosystem. This solution removes a large workload from our developers and operations personnel, allowing them to focus on enhancing user experience." said Shi.
In the future, Gaotie Guanjia will focus on providing data and services more efficiently, and will continue to utilize HMS Core's platform advantages, system capabilities, and service support to build more valuable travel services.
Last weekend 29th April to 1st May, we celebrated at the Universidad politécnica de Cataluña the HackUPC 2022. A hackathon (also known as hack day, hackfest, datahon or codefest; a portmanteau of marathon hacking) it’s a similar event as a design sprint where usually computer programmers and other software developers, including graphic designers, experts on the topic and others, collaborate closely in software projects.
The objective of a hackathon is to create software or hardware that works at the end of the event. Hackathons usually have a specific vision, that can include programming language used, operating system, an app, a API, or a topic and demographic group of programmers.in some cases, there are no restrictions on the software used.
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In this HackUPC edition, 119 projects were created during this hybrid mode event, Online+Offline. HackUPC is a well-known Hackathon in Barcelona (this is the 8th edition). Students attended from some of the best schools in Spain and Europe ⎼ Oxford, Cambridge, EPFL and ETH among others. In order to ensure quality and diversity at the event, hackers must complete an application to attend. HackUPC reviews each application and finally chooses a group of 500 hackers, who they provided with travel grants. During the event, hackers are provided with food, drinks, and gifts.
The HUAWEI workshop lasted around 30 minutes, with a brief introduction to HSD program and HMS Core (such as Analytics Kit, Map Kit, Push Kit, Ads Kit, Machine Learning Kit and our AppGallery Connect).
HUAWEI and its commitment to DevelopersHuawei it’s committed to digital inclusion for young people and participates actively in events like this one to support student developers. In these activities, hackers have 36 non-stop hours to meet the businesses challenges. The university provides classrooms for teamwork and for rest while the student association provides meals and snacks for participants and sponsors. After 36 hours, the hackers present their project to be qualified.
Participants who wish to enter Huawei Challenge, must first register as a Huawei developer. They will then need to develop an application that uses at least 2 main capabilities of HMS.
Who were the three winners of HackUPC 2022?1st prize: LiuLan, Voice assistant using HMS. They have used: Voice recognition (ML Kit), Push Kit, Map Kit, translation service.
2nd prize: Soft Eyes is an application created with the purpose of helping people who do not see well. Using the HUAWEI Machine Learning Kit, they intend to extract text from an image received by the user and pass the text into speech, all these functionalities supported by HUAWEI technology.
3rd prize: Smack UPC. A video game that used QA technology to obtain a downloadable mobile game. They used Crash Kit to analyze crash cases and integrated analytics to analyze user behavior.
The judges and mentors, Zhuqi Jiang, Fran Almeida, Tao Ping and Zhanglei (Leron)
The judges and mentors who participated in this Huawei Challenge were: Zhuqi Jiang, Fran Almeida, Tao Ping and Zhanglei (Leron). They spent the 3 days of the hackathon at their respective stands giving support to all the general doubts of the students - even approaching their sites when the doubts were more specific! In addition, we have collaborations with other departments such as students interested in the HUAWEI internship program, where HUAWEI helped them get in touch with the corresponding team. Also, the device group, gave us important support, providing us with the latest recently released HUAWEI devices so that we can make use of it and show them to the students.
All you developers who follow the path of activities focused on Developers, know that there will be a future AppsUp program, encouraging participants to complete their projects and participate in the AppsUp, just as it was done last year.