Live Transcribe

      With over 466 million deaf and/or hard of hearing people in the world Google has finally designed an app just for them.

       Live Transcribe is a brand new speech recognition app for the deaf and hard of hearing that makes it easier to understand and read when people communicate to them.How it works is while the app is open, a person can talk and their words will instantly begin to display on the phone or computer.
      Then the deaf/hard of hearing person can read this and respond either by talking themselves or by typing out their answer directly on the app. Live Transcribe can recognize over 70 languages and it is available for free download on both Iphone's and Androids. Although I myself am not deaf or hard of hearing, I have taken sign language classes all throughout high school and have met and gotten to know a few deaf people during that time. But while taking this class I realized that not all deaf people know sign language and it is sometimes hard for them to read lips especially if you're like me and you sometimes talk way too fast. With this new app, the ability for a deaf and/or hard of hearing person to read lips will not be needed anymore because this app can pick up exactly what the other person is saying and communication between everyone will become more clear and easier to understand.

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