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Fujitsu Builds A LiveTalk Transcribing Tool
Starting this month, Fujitsu and Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory, are offering “LiveTalk“, a new speech-to-text transcribing tool, to businesses, colleges and schools in Japan. Knowing that meeting and educational settings can challenge people with hearing issues, Fujitsu is seeking to visualise everyday speech as text to make interactions more natural. LiveTalk’s Universal Design Everyone can use LiveTalk regardless of hearing ability,
Skype Speech-To-Text Option Delivers Captions
Educators, speech therapists and healthcare workers who use Skype, will like this news. Skype has developed its Translator beta tool to remove spoken-language barriers between different nationalities (and shared-nationalities, in the case of people with hearing issues). English and Spanish are the first two languages supported by Skype Translator, which uses machine-learning to achieve smarter outcomes
App For Conversing In Meetings Or Groups
A new app, Transcence, is intended to give deaf people access to spoken dialogue among friends or colleagues who don’t know sign language, without using an interpreter. Read: A Smartphone-Based App That Lets You Converse With Deaf People Potential users wanting to test the app can register their interest at the Transcence website for when it exits private beta
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell