"It's not ideal for strangers, but we designed the program to be used among friends, trusted acquaintances or while making purchases." "For both uses, the person wearing Glass has to hand their smartphone to someone else to begin a conversation," said Professor Starner. This app will be launched in the near future. So far, the project has two-way translations for English, Spanish, French, Russian, Korean and Japanese. The team is working on a similar app designed to translate spoken language using an Android app on a smartphone, sending the translation to Google Glass. "The mobile phone puts a microphone directly next to the speaker's mouth, reducing background noise and helping to eliminate errors." "Glass has its own microphone, but it's designed for the wearer," Professor Starner said. He also noted that it was far superior than relying on the Google Glass microphone in terms of sound quality. However, if I miss a word, I can glance at the transcription, get the word or two I need and get back into the conversation."Īlthough the added smartphone might seem unwieldy to some, the project's leader, Professor Thad Starner, said that it was actually helpful in that holding a physical object made people think more carefully about what they were saying and how, reducing the number of speech disfluencies. "If hard-of-hearing people understand the speech, the conversation can continue immediately without waiting for the caption. "This system allows wearers like me to focus on the speaker's lips and facial gestures," Professor Foley said.
The app was developed by the team when School of Interactive Computing Professor Jim Foley found he was having trouble hearing - and thought that Google Glass might be able to help. Trouble hearing that caller? Phone captions your calls.'Made for iPhone' hearing aids aim to shake stigma.
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