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Interesting to me are the inverse issues my hard of hearing wife has with in-person work. She rarely gets anything out of meetings because the relative chaos an

Interesting to me are the inverse issues my hard of hearing wife has with in-person work. She rarely gets anything out of meetings because the relative chaos and people speaking over each other means she can't hear any of it. No technology yet provides real-time transcription for reality. The politics of interpersonal relations makes everyone think you're stuck up, shy, unconfident, or all of these if you don't often speak up yourself. The common practice of looking over someone's shoulder for co-working doesn't work well when the other person relies upon reading your lips to understand you. All of the mythical serendipitous chance interactions that happen around a water cooler don't involve you if you can't hear anyone and don't take part in water cooler chat.

travisjungroth 2y ago
> No technology yet provides real-time transcription for reality. A deaf dancer friend uses an app, I think from Google. We’re often in discussion/teaching circles in dance classes. Seems to work well. “Real time” is relative though. Conversation latency matters in roughly the tens of milliseconds and it’s certainly not near that fast. The group has to be attuned to having a turn for her to speak. She’ll pretty often come in at the same time as someone else, missing those subtle sounds of someone else about to talk. The emergent rule is “tie goes to her”. This all works well in the mindful scene of Berkeley experimental dance workshops. Maybe she’d get steamrolled in a competitive finance office or something.
- wiglaf1979 2y ago
  Can you please get that app's name? It sounds like something that would immensley help me. I'm hard of hearing and something like this would be amazing to have handy when I can't wear my hearing aids in a specific situation. I would really appreciate this.
  - softjobs 2y ago
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.accessibility.soundamplifier https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... perhaps?
  - multjoy 2y ago
    Apple has (currently US/Canada) live captions for conversations built in to iOS18
    - qkeast 2y ago
      In my experience, it’s awful. When using my phone for real-world captions, I still rely on Otter.ai or even a Google Meet with myself as the only participant.
  - travisjungroth 2y ago
    I can ask her when I see her, but that might be a while. I'm pretty sure it's Live Transcribe on Android. https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9158064?hl=en https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9158... As the other commenter pointed out, iOS now has it. There are also apps in the app stores.

travisjungroth 2y ago

> No technology yet provides real-time transcription for reality. A deaf dancer friend uses an app, I think from Google. We’re often in discussion/teaching circles in dance classes. Seems to work well. “Real time” is relative though. Conversation latency matters in roughly the tens of milliseconds and it’s certainly not near that fast. The group has to be attuned to having a turn for her to speak. She’ll pretty often come in at the same time as someone else, missing those subtle sounds of someone else about to talk. The emergent rule is “tie goes to her”. This all works well in the mindful scene of Berkeley experimental dance workshops. Maybe she’d get steamrolled in a competitive finance office or something.

wiglaf1979 2y ago
Can you please get that app's name? It sounds like something that would immensley help me. I'm hard of hearing and something like this would be amazing to have handy when I can't wear my hearing aids in a specific situation. I would really appreciate this.
- softjobs 2y ago
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.accessibility.soundamplifier https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... perhaps?
- multjoy 2y ago
  Apple has (currently US/Canada) live captions for conversations built in to iOS18
  - qkeast 2y ago
    In my experience, it’s awful. When using my phone for real-world captions, I still rely on Otter.ai or even a Google Meet with myself as the only participant.
- travisjungroth 2y ago
  I can ask her when I see her, but that might be a while. I'm pretty sure it's Live Transcribe on Android. https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9158064?hl=en https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9158... As the other commenter pointed out, iOS now has it. There are also apps in the app stores.