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Speech-to-Text Glasses use Augmented Reality to Aid the Deaf

Posted by mLearnCon Staff

Categories: Accessibility , Augmented Reality , Futuristic Mobile

Speech-to-Text Glasses use Augmented Reality to Aid the Deaf

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Danish designer Mads Hindhed has created glasses that instantly take spoken speech, converts it into readable text, and project them onto the inside of glasses. 

The tech is called "BabelFisk," which is Danish for "Babel Fish"--not to be confused with Yahoo!'s Babel Fish translation site (hey there, impending Yahoo! law suit). This tech is designed to bring the hearing impaired into any conversation. And that's going to help a lot of people.

Read all about it HERE