Showing posts with label apps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apps. Show all posts

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Apps for your Android phone on voice recognition

Here's an app, Closed Capp, that you can download to your Android phone where you can ask a person to speak into your phone and two seconds later have their words transcribed across your phone screen. This is a great app for those who have trouble hearing or are unable to hear.  Not exactly real time captioning nor real time conversation which last only 5 to 10 seconds long for a limited conversation to be transcribed each time.  But it's the next best thing for those who would want to opt for that piece of technology with the help of Google. Voice recognition technology is getting better and better as more people use it, and Google is constantly updating the service and accuracy they offer.  To understand how it works check out the Closed Capp video demo page.

It's only a matter of time that technology will improve to a point where voice recognition technology with the aid of powerful and fast computers will see accurate transcription, in real time, of at least at the 95 percentile range that will enable real time conversation without pressing the button every 5 to 10 seconds to transcribe what was spoken.

Sunday, March 06, 2011

Deaf Apps for Android based Mobile Phones

Here is a website that tracks the number of apps for Android based cell phones that people can download. Most of them free with a few requiring a few bucks to download. The site targets apps that, supposedly so, could help deaf and hard of hearing people who have internet enabled Android-based cell phones. What do you think? Have you downloaded any of those apps? Do you find any of apps presented in that website which could be helpful to you? What kind of apps would you like to see on your Android based cell phone that could help benefit you as a deaf or hard of hearing person?