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Very nice! Related: I wonder if one could build a speech-to-text Google Glass app that's usable as a hearing aid in all sorts of situations, not just watching

by scg 13y ago

Very nice! Related: I wonder if one could build a speech-to-text Google Glass app that's usable as a hearing aid in all sorts of situations, not just watching movies.

thret 13y ago
Also with google translate, for when you travel.
- pixelcort 13y ago
  In the currently airing animated TV show [Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet][1], the protagonist has a display that translates things spoken to him into text in his native language. [1]: http://www.crunchyroll.com/gargantia-on-the-verdurous-planet http://www.crunchyroll.com/gargantia-on-the-verdurous-planet
ajross 13y ago
Maybe. Or for the more immediate term a Google Glass app that speaks whatever protocol this device does. This is, I think, a really good example of the kind of places Glass will fit. Think of this as the "pocket camera" or "music player" device which will be inevitably replaced as a software application of a more generic device (which in those cases happened to be a "phone").
scottmotte 13y ago
I would love to see this. We had 2 deaf hackers compete at our recent Startup Weekend. An app built on top of Google Glass would have helped them communicate better with the other participants. Bonus points if there would eventually be an app to convert sign language to written or spoken text - so that comparatively fast 2 way communication could happen.
- pgeorgi 13y ago
  Translating a highly context dependent visual language into a slightly less context dependent spoken/text language with different grammar... Also, supporting all the different sign languages and their spoken counterparts since the market is small enough that you better go international early, unless you want your product cost (close to) five digits a piece like most accessibility hardware. You have more problems to solve than "just" isolating the signs (which the next generation kinect probably could help with) and applying labels to them, but it's certainly a worthwhile challenge, both in effort and in result.
- Sven7 13y ago
  Thad Starner, who now advises/works on Google glass has done a lot of work on exactly this - american sign language recognition. Also interesting is, in many cases signing something is much faster than speech or typing. As our pattern recognizer get smarter, there is a small possibility that signers see a greater benefit than the rest of the population.

by scg 13y ago

Very nice! Related: I wonder if one could build a speech-to-text Google Glass app that's usable as a hearing aid in all sorts of situations, not just watching movies.

thret 13y ago

Also with google translate, for when you travel.

pixelcort 13y ago
In the currently airing animated TV show [Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet][1], the protagonist has a display that translates things spoken to him into text in his native language. [1]: http://www.crunchyroll.com/gargantia-on-the-verdurous-planet http://www.crunchyroll.com/gargantia-on-the-verdurous-planet

ajross 13y ago

Maybe. Or for the more immediate term a Google Glass app that speaks whatever protocol this device does. This is, I think, a really good example of the kind of places Glass will fit. Think of this as the "pocket camera" or "music player" device which will be inevitably replaced as a software application of a more generic device (which in those cases happened to be a "phone").

scottmotte 13y ago

I would love to see this. We had 2 deaf hackers compete at our recent Startup Weekend. An app built on top of Google Glass would have helped them communicate better with the other participants. Bonus points if there would eventually be an app to convert sign language to written or spoken text - so that comparatively fast 2 way communication could happen.

pgeorgi 13y ago
Translating a highly context dependent visual language into a slightly less context dependent spoken/text language with different grammar... Also, supporting all the different sign languages and their spoken counterparts since the market is small enough that you better go international early, unless you want your product cost (close to) five digits a piece like most accessibility hardware. You have more problems to solve than "just" isolating the signs (which the next generation kinect probably could help with) and applying labels to them, but it's certainly a worthwhile challenge, both in effort and in result.
Sven7 13y ago
Thad Starner, who now advises/works on Google glass has done a lot of work on exactly this - american sign language recognition. Also interesting is, in many cases signing something is much faster than speech or typing. As our pattern recognizer get smarter, there is a small possibility that signers see a greater benefit than the rest of the population.