Editor's Pick: New Android Apps Come to the Aid of Hearing-Impaired

New Android Apps Come to the Aid of Hearing-Impaired

John P. Mello Jr. Feb 5, 2019 5:00 AM PT

Google has announced two new Android applications designed to make life easier for deaf and hard-of-hearing people. One of the apps, Live Transcribe, turns live speech into real-time captions by using a phone's microphone; the other, Sound Amplifier, improves a phone's sound output. Live Transcribe, which works on Android 5.0 Lollipop and up, will be available in 70 languages and dialects. [More...]

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