Perhaps most interestingly, one patent shows Google is working on a system to help hard-of-hearing and deaf users detect and interpret nearby sounds. The glasses' heads-up display would show arrows and flashing lights to indicate the direction and intensity level of the sound, and even display the words nearby people are speaking. The patent, #8,183,997, was issued to Google today and is titled "Displaying sound indications on a wearable computing system." The system would integrate a speech-to-text feature that determines the text of speech and displays it for the wearer of the glasses.This concept on augmented reality will be a boon to deaf and hard of hearing users in the near future by allowing the extra-dimension of space, time and information of sound and visuals through the use of these glasses.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Technology is king for deaf users when it comes to communication
Technology is the key to success for deaf and hard of hearing people. It is true today and it will be more so true into the very near future when it comes to helping provide communication to deaf and hard of hearing with the rest of the world. Google has come out with a new fangled technology that has been in the works for some years called Google Glasses where it hints at speech-to-text display for deaf users:
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For some reason, AT&T does a much better job of voice-to-text. If somebody calls and leave a message, the computer converts it to text message. Google never gets it right but kudos to Google for coming up with the technology. I prefer AT&T doing that, not Google though! :)
I praised Google to do their best on speech to text technology. Why not Netflix do same thing on video streaming. We fight with Netflix over closed caption on ALL videos streaming years. Shame on Netflix.
I'm more concerned with 'real time' speech to text advances I can use outside the home. I find google's 'cc' option incomprehensible rubbish basically and never use it. It is hard enough p[laying 'guess what they say' on the BBC TV without going online and needing a course in serbo-croat to make any sense of it. Are they concentrating online and via telephony at the expense of where we actually need it most ?
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