New app lets deaf people ‘hear’ group conversations

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Dig this!!

Researchers have developed the first mobile app to make group conversations possible between deaf people and their hearing peers.

Wow cool!!
what remains to be seen is how good is this....
I think its be just as good/crappy as a youtube real-time captioning...

http://rt.com/news/197332-app-lets-people-hear/


what you think?
 
fantastic!! but I have a doubt: if I find a Chinese who does not speak English ... what do I do?
the computer will understand? :hmm:
 
That's great. I wonder if it involves algorithm and digital processing stuff to develop the app.
 
That would be great to have when I go to my holidays meals , I would be able to know what people are talking about. It's a drag having keep asking someone to repeat something by asking 'whatdidyousay?
 
I do not mind at all to ask "What did you say," so on the holding where I work do not give me too far challenging duties and they pay me the same! of course .... joke !! :laugh2:
 
mortimer mouse said:
I do not mind at all to ask "What did you say," so on the holding where I work do not give me too far challenging duties and they pay me the same! of course .... joke !! :laugh2:
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Yeah but if someone say something funny and I miss it the person does not really want to say it again b/c the mood has pass. I miss out a lot the funny stuff and feel left out of the fun. I am the only one at the table that hoh.
 
not always find the right people, it happens to me, I also believe many deaf ...
But I make jokes sympathetic for not being so boring silent :D
 
this would definitely be cool.. even for work meetings. I use an FM system (i realllly need a new one- the one I have is 25 year old now and I lost the microphone- used for individual- the groupmate thing still works) for work and it has worked fairly well but I still miss a lot.

unfortunately speech to text is a difficult animal to tame and may never be totally good as there's so much to be factored in- background noise- accents (southern, european, indian etc) for example.
 
mortimer mouse said:
DEAFDUCK forgive me ... but can you explain what are the FM system? thanks!
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FM systems work with hearing aids (turn to T-Coil- well for me at least) and allows you to hear the speaker directly and with a louder dB level. I think Bluetooth falls into this category now but I've never experienced that.

here is one explanation:
http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/FM-Systems/

even better explanation
http://www.hearinglink.org/fm-systems

here is what one Personal FM system looks like (mine looks nothing like this lol but is a Comtek)
http://comtek.com/at-216/

Some more:
https://www.harriscomm.com/equipment/personal-listening/fm-systems.html?limit=all
 
DeafDucky said:
FM systems work with hearing aids (turn to T-Coil- well for me at least) and allows you to hear the speaker directly and with a louder dB level. I think Bluetooth falls into this category now but I've never experienced that.

here is one explanation:
http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/FM-Systems/

even better explanation
http://www.hearinglink.org/fm-systems

here is what one Personal FM system looks like (mine looks nothing like this lol but is a Comtek)
http://comtek.com/at-216/

Some more:
https://www.harriscomm.com/equipment/personal-listening/fm-systems.html?limit=all
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I get it! here is known as an amplifier of the sound.
How much your percentage of hearing loss? and if you use hearing aids or CI ....
I use digital hearing aids and I have lost without hearing aids about 90%, instead with hearing aids my recovery is about 70%.
 
Digital hearing aids now (grew up with analog)
my loss right now is between 95 dB to 110 dB with the worse being in the lower frequencies, slightly better in the higher frequencies. With hearing aids...um... I'd have to look at that again to see where it falls but likely somewhere in the 55 dB to 70 dB range maybe.

Unfortunately I wouldn't know how to translate that to percentage but I fall within the profound range- always have.
 
Would it work on people with accents?

There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
 
DeafDucky said:
Digital hearing aids now (grew up with analog)
my loss right now is between 95 dB to 110 dB with the worse being in the lower frequencies, slightly better in the higher frequencies. With hearing aids...um... I'd have to look at that again to see where it falls but likely somewhere in the 55 dB to 70 dB range maybe.

Unfortunately I wouldn't know how to translate that to percentage but I fall within the profound range- always have.
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phearps your recovery is 50-60 % .... but is good!
 
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