Hi everyone.
I might have some exciting news. Well at least the beginning of something that could be exciting and helpful.
Bare with me a moment while I explain the situation. I happen to be a magician and I meet another magician at a convention that happens to be an iPhone developer. He creates iPhone Applications. We got to talking and I shared an idea I had for an iPhone app for deaf people like me. The idea is an app that would turn an iPhone into a translator with Voice Recognition.
OF course we all know that this technology is already out there and being used for this purpose. But I'm talking about an app you can install in your iPhone and use it for this purpose. So for example if you call someone the call will be captioned for you so you can read it on your iPhone. It would also be used in real time conversation in person. So if you're talking to someone their speech is picked up on your iPhone and turned to text.
I also know that voice recognition technology isn't perfect yet. But the technology is improving all the time.
The text can then be translated into other language or feed to a braille display for the blind.
Now this is just something being looked into right now. Basically my friend who is a developer submitted the idea for the app in to his company and they have to ok it before he can really start to work on it. But the good news is that the process has at least started to get the ball rolling.
Now if this happens I'm sure there will a need for some beta testers. I'll let you all know what I find out about that.
Now the reason I'm posting this now is to ask you all if you have any suggestions or ideas for this to please share them. If they do pass this project and they start working on it. I'll forward your suggestions and ideas to them. So let me know what you think.
Like I said. I'm not promising anything on this yet. Just announcing that the project might happen and since we're the ones who will likely use something like this we'd be the best to know what we'd want from it.
Ron
I might have some exciting news. Well at least the beginning of something that could be exciting and helpful.
Bare with me a moment while I explain the situation. I happen to be a magician and I meet another magician at a convention that happens to be an iPhone developer. He creates iPhone Applications. We got to talking and I shared an idea I had for an iPhone app for deaf people like me. The idea is an app that would turn an iPhone into a translator with Voice Recognition.
OF course we all know that this technology is already out there and being used for this purpose. But I'm talking about an app you can install in your iPhone and use it for this purpose. So for example if you call someone the call will be captioned for you so you can read it on your iPhone. It would also be used in real time conversation in person. So if you're talking to someone their speech is picked up on your iPhone and turned to text.
I also know that voice recognition technology isn't perfect yet. But the technology is improving all the time.
The text can then be translated into other language or feed to a braille display for the blind.
Now this is just something being looked into right now. Basically my friend who is a developer submitted the idea for the app in to his company and they have to ok it before he can really start to work on it. But the good news is that the process has at least started to get the ball rolling.
Now if this happens I'm sure there will a need for some beta testers. I'll let you all know what I find out about that.
Now the reason I'm posting this now is to ask you all if you have any suggestions or ideas for this to please share them. If they do pass this project and they start working on it. I'll forward your suggestions and ideas to them. So let me know what you think.
Like I said. I'm not promising anything on this yet. Just announcing that the project might happen and since we're the ones who will likely use something like this we'd be the best to know what we'd want from it.
Ron