With Google Ireland celebrating ten years at its base in Dublin by opening The Foundry, its innovation and conference centre, a look at how its Google Glass technology might impact people with hearing issues, is relevant.
One example is the nascent possibility to reassign Google’s voice-search service to deliver realtime voice-to-text transcription, at a desktop, on a mobile device or to Google Glass, anywhere the user may happen to be.
After all, if Google’s voice-search-algorithms can be optimised to interpret diverse accents and languages, surely this capability can be redirected for output as live subtitles via Google Glass, as mentioned in the below article?
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Notably, Lisa Goldstein, a journalist who’s deaf from birth and wears a cochlear implant with a digital hearing-aid, shares her experiences with Google after acceptance into the Glass tester program at $1,500 per trial.
Read: Google Glass: Not For Hearing [Issues]
Despite Google’s YouTube auto-captions system still needing optimisation, and Google Translate not being 100% accurate – the technology pathways are emerging. A question is whether a third-party firm with a better service may beat Google to the finish line – but that debate is for a different day.
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