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Researchers Create Software For Google Glass That Provides Captions For Hard-of-Hearing sers
Captioning on Glass allows a person to speak into a phone; the speech is converted to text, and then displayed on Glass.
Credit: Georgia Tech News Center
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have developed speech-to-text software for Google Glass to help people with hearing loss conduct conversations more easily.
Users wear Google Glass while a second person speaks directly into a smartphone with an Android phone app. The speech is converted to text, sent to Glass, and shown on its display.
The Captioning on Glass technology lets users "focus on the speaker's lips and facial gestures," says Georgia Tech professor Jim Foley. "I can glance at the transcription, get the word or two I need, and get back into the conversation."
The project is being led by Thad Starner, head of the Contextual Computing Group. Starner says the phone-to-Glass system is helpful because speakers are more likely to construct their sentences more clearly.
The smartphone software also enables the speaker to edit mistakes and send the changes to the person wearing the device.
Foley and his team also are working on technology to enable two-way translations in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Korean, and Japanese.
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