Samsung Good Vibes is a two-way communication app that allows the deafblind to send and receive messages with friends, family or anybody else through their smartphones. It translates Morse Code input into text or voice and vice versa.
An app with two interfaces.
For the Deafblind
A deafblind person can send a message from the app by tapping on the screen using Morse Code—where all letters of the English alphabet are combinations of dots and dashes. The letters can be input as short tap for a dot and long press for a dash.
Likewise, incoming messages can be understood as vibrations by the deafblind, where small vibration means a dot and long vibration means a dash.
For people with normal sight and hearing
Anyone can send a message, by typing or speaking. It has a standard chat/voice interface that delivers the message to the deafblind person as Morse Code vibrations.
Samsung India Good Vibes App: Caring for the impossible
Without the ability to see, hear or speak, the deafblind can’t express themselves. This is the challenge faced by lakhs of deafblind people in India. Samsung presents Good Vibes, a two-way communication app that enables them to communicate with family, friends or anyone else through their smartphones.How it works
To get a detailed overview on how to use the app – Download User Manual
To learn more about Morse Code – Download the Guide
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FAQ
Deafblind is a term that is used when a person has a combination of impaired vision, hearing and speech.
Samsung Good Vibes is a two-way communication app for the deafblind. It allows the deafblind to communicate with friends, family or anyone else through their smartphone. It translates Morse Code input into text or voice and vice versa.
Morse Code is a detailed system of dots, dashes, and spaces used to represent numbers, punctuation, and letters of the alphabet. It is used both as a code and a way to communicate without the ability or need to use actual characters.
Samsung Good Vibes uses the vibrations of a smartphone. Through Morse Code, a language almost as old as Braille, the app lets the deafblind feel the vibrations, one letter at a time.
The app is for the deafblind. These are people who can’t see, hear or speak. They can only navigate the world through their sense of touch.
The Samsung Good Vibes app comes with an SOS feature that is activated by shaking the phone 5 times. This dials the emergency contact number.
The app uses Morse Code which is converted from the letters of the English alphabet. Basic knowledge of the alphabet is required for using the app.
There is a section of the app to learn and practice Morse Code. With every alphabet, the corresponding vibration starts playing in this section.
To know more please refer to the User Manual.
The Samsung Good Vibes app has an ‘Always On’ setting. Once the app is installed in Deafblind mode, the setting allows the app to automatically open on the phone of the deafblind even after a restart. To know more please refer to the User Manual.
The deafblind have to simply input the short name of the recipient in the first message to them and send. To know more please refer to the User Manual.
The initial download and registration is required to be done by the caregiver. Once the contacts have been added, the deafblind can use the app on their own.
After the registration, the user gets to choose the interface.
Please refer to the user manual for details.
If a contact is added and they don’t have the Samsung Good Vibes app, then an SMS goes to the contact prompting them to download it.
The name of the sender comes before the first message sent by them.
Please refer to the user manual for details.