New idea/solution for hearing impaired/deaf people to communicate with hearing world

D

DeafUK

New Member
Joined
Dec 7, 2013
Messages
22
Reaction score
0
As a profoundly deaf person who daily interacts with hearing people. The technology around today should be possible to develop this idea.

TOQ0bqm.jpg


If not, why hasn't it yet?

It would make life and communicating much easier with people.
 
markengland29 said:
I approve. Shall we make that a reality?
Click to expand...

Yeah, hopefully!

Interesting replies received from Reddit (/r/deaf) on this topic. This is a response from user Jahkral

'Voice recognition software just isn't developed enough. Its very hard to make software that covers the wide range of speech patterns - accents, dialects, slurs, speech impediments, changes in pitch/tone due to excitement, mumbling, etc. Add that onto difficulties sorting background noise and pseudovoices (noises from environment that might sound close enough to a voice to trigger the reading) from talking... the tech is a bit off. Maybe 10 years, maybe not.'
 
DeafUK said:
Yeah, hopefully!

Interesting replies received from Reddit (/r/deaf) on this topic. This is a response from user Jahkral

'Voice recognition software just isn't developed enough. Its very hard to make software that covers the wide range of speech patterns - accents, dialects, slurs, speech impediments, changes in pitch/tone due to excitement, mumbling, etc. Add that onto difficulties sorting background noise and pseudovoices (noises from environment that might sound close enough to a voice to trigger the reading) from talking... the tech is a bit off. Maybe 10 years, maybe not.'
Click to expand...

I don't know about 10 years..... 5 maybe. As for voice recognition, I'd add a tiny microphone to the glasses, and maybe add the name of the person or something, so as soon that person speaks, it recognizes the person right off the bat, like if your Mom or Dad called you on the phone, you'd be able to use that technology to program the voice recognition software to make things go easier.
 
Haha, the company I work at is actually developing this currently.

Google Glass's speech recognition capabilities are quite advanced. The software we're developing for the glass actually goes a step further and modulates the pitch, allowing different voices to show up in different subtitle colors.
 
arao6 said:
Haha, the company I work at is actually developing this currently.

Google Glass's speech recognition capabilities are quite advanced. The software we're developing for the glass actually goes a step further and modulates the pitch, allowing different voices to show up in different subtitle colors.
Click to expand...

Perfect. I like that. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
 
arao6 said:
Haha, the company I work at is actually developing this currently.

Google Glass's speech recognition capabilities are quite advanced. The software we're developing for the glass actually goes a step further and modulates the pitch, allowing different voices to show up in different subtitle colors.
Click to expand...

Wow, great to hear. I too would be very interested to hear how it develops. Would it be possible to look at the idea of how it could benefit hard of hearing/deaf people? I can imagine there would be a definite demand and future for this device/idea if it could be developed to also help hard of hearing/deaf people.
 
DeafUK said:
Wow, great to hear. I too would be very interested to hear how it develops. Would it be possible to look at the idea of how it could benefit hard of hearing/deaf people? I can imagine there would be a definite demand and future for this device/idea if it could be developed to also help hard of hearing/deaf people.
Click to expand...

There totally would be-- it would be the future of Deaf/HoH communication with the hearing world.
 
My boyfriend is an IP lawyer and he said one of his clients has something. He interviewed me a little to write the patent about what I would find helpful. I don't know much about the invention but it's mostly used to translate voice to text in real time, not with a gap like Dragon. Might still be 5 years out, knowing how slow patents are ;)
 
ohmylight said:
My boyfriend is an IP lawyer and he said one of his clients has something. He interviewed me a little to write the patent about what I would find helpful. I don't know much about the invention but it's mostly used to translate voice to text in real time, not with a gap like Dragon. Might still be 5 years out, knowing how slow patents are ;)
Click to expand...

That's why I said 5 years... the legal paperwork and the patent process is at a snail's pace.
 
Received a reply from Google Glass about the idea. It's a start at least!

'Thanks for your suggestion. We agree that this would be a great feature or Glassware to have as we're always working towards making Glass more accessible for others.'
 
DeafUK said:
As a profoundly deaf person who daily interacts with hearing people. The technology around today should be possible to develop this idea.

TOQ0bqm.jpg


If not, why hasn't it yet?

It would make life and communicating much easier with people.
Click to expand...

One question: Wouldn't it pose the same risks as walking while texting? In some countries, walking while texting is banned due to end.
 
BecLak said:
One question: Wouldn't it pose the same risks as walking while texting? In some countries, walking while texting is banned due to end.
Click to expand...

I guess that would save a lot of money for those who pay per text plan on their phones.
 
BecLak said:
One question: Wouldn't it pose the same risks as walking while texting? In some countries, walking while texting is banned due to end.
Click to expand...

Good question. I wouldn't think so, I imagined the glasses only taking up a portion of the frame at the bottom so it wouldn't disrupt the person's vision.
 
Back
Top