Sanket

Assistive app for the deaf and hard of hearing with ML-powered environmental sound detection.

  • Assistive Tech
  • Audio ML
  • Speech Recognition

Overview

Sanket is an assistive application for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, with backend and machine learning components built by Ashish Pandey. It detects wake words, recognizes speakers, and identifies critical environmental sounds such as fire alarms, sirens, and baby cries, delivering vibration alerts in real time.

What Ashish Pandey built

  • Developed backend and ML components focused on accessibility for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Implemented vibration alerts for wake word detection (93% accuracy) and speaker recognition (94%)
  • Enabled detection of critical sounds fire alarms, sirens, baby cries at 89% accuracy

Tech stack

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • FastAPI

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