<story><title>Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/02/real-time-continuous-transcription-with.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>This app is cool and useful, but a major piece of the puzzle is missing.&lt;p&gt;Communication between a Deaf person and a hearing person is a two-way street, and this tool really only addresses one of those streets.&lt;p&gt;The tool transcribes the audible speech of the hearing person, allowing the Deaf person to read the transcription.&lt;p&gt;But if the Deaf person wants to sign a response, they&amp;#x27;re out of luck.  Instead, they need to type their response on the device.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s OK, but in a &amp;quot;this&amp;#x27;ll make do in a pinch&amp;quot; kind of way.  The ideal is that both the Deaf person and the Hearing person are able to communicate without typing.&lt;p&gt;There is some pretty cool research around signing-to-text translation -- Matt Huenerfauth &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;huenerfauth.ist.rit.edu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;huenerfauth.ist.rit.edu&lt;/a&gt; is doing some really interesting stuff, for example -- but as far as I know it&amp;#x27;s not ready for prime time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thro_away_n</author><text>As a deaf person, I use &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ava.me&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ava.me&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; most of the time. It allows me to host a group conversation and have speakers labeled if everyone else uses the app but that&amp;#x27;s a chore to set up sometimes. It&amp;#x27;s also quite pricey at $30 per month and some months I use it for less than a hour. It can voice what you type if you want, but I normally voice for myself. I also used to use Keep Notes &amp;amp; the &amp;#x27;mic&amp;#x27; icon in a pinch, but that would turn itself off if it didn&amp;#x27;t pick up any speech in some time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe</title><url>https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/02/real-time-continuous-transcription-with.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jawns</author><text>This app is cool and useful, but a major piece of the puzzle is missing.&lt;p&gt;Communication between a Deaf person and a hearing person is a two-way street, and this tool really only addresses one of those streets.&lt;p&gt;The tool transcribes the audible speech of the hearing person, allowing the Deaf person to read the transcription.&lt;p&gt;But if the Deaf person wants to sign a response, they&amp;#x27;re out of luck.  Instead, they need to type their response on the device.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s OK, but in a &amp;quot;this&amp;#x27;ll make do in a pinch&amp;quot; kind of way.  The ideal is that both the Deaf person and the Hearing person are able to communicate without typing.&lt;p&gt;There is some pretty cool research around signing-to-text translation -- Matt Huenerfauth &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;huenerfauth.ist.rit.edu&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;huenerfauth.ist.rit.edu&lt;/a&gt; is doing some really interesting stuff, for example -- but as far as I know it&amp;#x27;s not ready for prime time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fipple</author><text>Repairing one lane of a two way street is still useful. :)</text></comment>