When we watch movies or TV shows, sometimes closed captions are provided. This is handy when characters are speaking too fast or if they are speaking in a different language which will help us understand what is going on. Now wouldn’t it be awesome if we had closed captioning in real life?
Well the folks at Georgia Tech (via Gizmodo) have recently come up with an app designed for Google Glass that will basically give the wearable closed captioning capabilities. This will rely on the user’s smartphone that Google Glass will be paired with and for this to work, all the user has to do is hand their phone over to the person they’re talking to, and the app and phone’s microphone will do the rest.
This was designed for the deaf/hearing impaired in mind and at the moment, the team behind the app are working on more languages and a possible two-way translation feature that will be able to translate languages such as English, Spanish, French, Russian, Korean, and Japanese.
However if there is a downside, it means handing over the phone to the person you’re talking to. When with friends we guess this isn’t really an issue, although if talking to strangers you might want to be careful lest they make off with your phone. We suppose an alternative would be the user to hold the phone with the microphone pointed at the speaker. In any case you can check out the video above to see close captioning on Google Glass in action.
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