<![CDATA[Google Glass App Gives Conversations Real-Time Closed Captioning]]>

375381 external_news 1423503093 1475893429 <![CDATA[Google Glass App Gives Conversations Real-Time Closed Captioning]]> Georgia Tech researchers have come up with an app that turns Google Glass into a real-time closed-captioning display for the hearing-impaired, using the voice recognition in the user's Glass-paired smartphone. Now this is a face-computer use we can get behind.

Captioning on Glass uses a Glass wearer's smartphone as a remote microphone. The Glass wearer simply hands his or her phone to the other person in the conversation, and the smartphone's mic picks up what the other person is saying. Nearly instantly, a transcription shows up on the Glass display.

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