Google Wearable Subtitles

2020: The announcement of Google Wearable Subtitles - smart points for deafs

At the end of October, 2020 Google provided smart points for deaf and hearing-impaired people of Wearable Subtitles who bring the text of the speech of the interlocutor to the display. Though Google Glass which provide imposing of data in the field of sight of the user was not widely adopted for commercial use, the new model can find the niche, developers consider.

Development of Google is not essentially new as many people with a hearing disorder use possibilities of smartphones for speech recognition of interlocutors. However it is not always convenient to use phone in everyday life. Smart points solve a number of the problems connected with it: for example, the user does not need to support visual contact with the interlocutor any more or to constantly check the smartphone screen in time to respond to the remark turned to it.

Google provided smart points for deafs - Google Wearable Subtitles

According to developers, new smart points will be able to work about 15 hours a day, without requiring recharge. Wearable Subtitles glasses use the thin printed circuit board, the equipped SiP MediaTek MT2523D (Arm Cortex-M4), Bluetooth 4.0 and the BLE transceiver. All hardware packet is placed on the right side of a frame where it is almost not visible to people around. The built-in system contacts the smartphone through BLE and uses the microphone of phone and the protocol of communication for interpretation of words and sounds.

Then interpretation of record is transferred to the monocular display located on the right lens, and all text is displayed in white color for increase in contrast and visibility. Google conducted researches with involvement of deaf and hearing-impaired people to improve design, response time, the clearness of lenses and other parameters. Volunteers also compared speech recognition by means of the smartphone and a new method. In all situations the convenience and awareness of the user on surrounding sounds were the same or are higher when using smart points.^[1]

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