I recently met someone who is deaf and communication was a real struggle. We were pointing phones in each others face to listen and translate to text. They ca

I recently met someone who is deaf and communication was a real struggle. We were pointing phones in each others face to listen and translate to text. They called up a really great service called convo which has deaf translators live to translate. All this worked and surely must be leaps and bounds better than 10 years ago. Even so it was far from natural. Anything to make life easier for deaf people is good. I had it in mind for a badge that both people can wear, it flashes or glows when the wearer is talking and instantly translates what they are saying and shows it on the badge display. This idea of translating to sign language also sounds great though in the context of conversation i don't think it would be more helpful than text.