Speech to text glasses let the deaf read what you're saying

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Speech to text glasses let the deaf read what you're saying | DVICE

A lot of deaf people learn to read lips, but that's got to be a tough learning curve, with inexact results at best. Wouldn't if be great if you could simply give the hearing impaired a written transcript of what you're saying in real time?

That's the idea behind the Babel Fisk (fisk is Danish for fish) glasses concept from Danish designer Mads Hindhede. Microphones built into the frame pick up the voice of a person in your line of sight, then an embedded speech to text program creates text that is projected onto the inside of the lenses.

Another feature lets you record the text to a flash memory card for later use, which would be great if you're the type of person who tends to sleep through meetings or boring lectures.

Let's just hope the production version doesn't turn everything into Danish like in the picture.
 
ugh... yea the 4-hrs class... it was agonizing.
 
Bottesini said:
You are just too social. Who talks to people for 4 hours?? :eek3:
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the colleges do combine it into 1 class a week instead of 2-3 classes a week (1-2 hrs) due to budget issue or scheduling issue or whatever.
 
Jiro said:
the colleges do combine it into 1 class a week instead of 2-3 classes a week (1-2 hrs) due to budget issue or scheduling issue or whatever.
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My first English class was like that. I wanted to kill myself by the time it was break-time every class. But even sitting through four to six classes of one-hour lectures with CART-- assuming anywhere between 15 minutes to two hours break in between each classes is brutal. Interpreter for six to eight hours is so much better than CART for three to four hours a day.

Suicide-watch, you can relax, I am not serious. It's a figure of speech.
 
Jiro said:
the colleges do combine it into 1 class a week instead of 2-3 classes a week (1-2 hrs) due to budget issue or scheduling issue or whatever.
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I have heard other people say what a strain that is, but I am unfortunately probably not going to get to experience it.

Unless we live to retire and do one of those senior student things.

If you could live in a dorm and eat in the cafeteria, it would be about as good as assisted living, except with self improvement. :hmm:
 
I'm wondering if this is something that could be used in a classroom setting, presentation or seminar, especially in a large room or audience, etc?
 
That does look pretty cool for everyday thing, but not to sit through something for hours...I think?

But how is that different from deafies that watch TV with CC for hours?
 
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