How we started the Brain-Up social Open Source project to create a platform for the development of auditory perception

In September 2019, I started the Brain-Up social Open Source project. It is a web-based application that includes a series of interactive audio exercises to train your ability to hear and understand speech. I've been a Java developer since 2013 and at EPAM since 2017. And so, once faced with such a problem of speech perception in my child, I realized that I could try to start developing such a product that could help people develop the ability to understand speech without leaving home, at the computer, through a website, without resorting to daily help of relatives, specialists. The first version of the product is already ready and available here . In this article I will tell you about our project, what tasks and how were solved, our plans and how you can join the project .









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According to WHO statistics, more than 25% of children have speech disorders, more than 10% of people have hearing problems of one degree or another of various origins (these can be congenital problems, and acquired as injuries or complications from antibiotics, drugs, long-acting noise). Unfortunately, these numbers are only growing every year. If there are about 150 million people in Russia now, then this is about 15 million people around us with this problem. This is approximately the population of the entire Baltic (about 6 million) and Belarus (about 10 million) combined. This is certainly a huge figure. 





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