An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary
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Re: An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary
#2So does it go up to a server to transcribe the audio? Is that why it costs $360 a year?
Re: An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary
#3You mean a text message?
Re: An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary
#4You mean a text message?
You wouldn't have made this comment if you actually looked at the article and saw what the app does.
Re: An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary
#5I watched the video...is this anything more than a mashup of groupchat and speech-to-text? Couldn't something similar be achieved with Google's speech to text API and IRC? I would've been impressed if the transcription was amazing, but there are errors in the video ("foreclosure" instead of "surfer culture", for one).
Re: An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary
#6Amazing to see why they are going after this problem. One founder grew up in a fully deaf family and another founder is deaf himself.
Re: An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary
#7You mean a text message?
I thought the same thing - until I read this:
"It works by catching conversations from the voices of different individuals and assigning them a color bubble so the deaf person knows who said what. It works with a distributed microphone system on all the devices using the app so that it can distinguish each person from another."
That's pretty damn amazing IMHO.
Re: An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary
#8So does it go up to a server to transcribe the audio? Is that why it costs $360 a year?
That's also why most businesses won't be able to use it.
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#9Re: An App That Lets You Converse with the Deaf, No Sign Language Necessary
#10I watched the video...is this anything more than a mashup of groupchat and speech-to-text? Couldn't something similar be achieved with Google's speech to text API and IRC? I would've been impressed if the transcription was amazing, but there are errors in the video ("foreclosure" instead of "surfer culture", for one).
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