Google is a company that sees technology as a tool that makes people’s lives easier. And now it’s addressing the hearing impaired with two new barrier-free applications for Android devices: Instant Transcription and Sound Amplifier.
Instant Transcription is a mobile application that uses the power of the Google cloud for automatic speech recognition to offer on-screen and real-time text transcriptions of conversations that take place in the user’s own environment and are collected through the microphone of your mobile device, which also allows them to participate without having to speak by voice and write their responses directly on the screen.
According to Google, this new application can also be connected to external microphones to improve the accuracy of transcriptions. The Instant Transfer is available in more than 70 languages and dialects and begins with the step-by-step delivery via the Play Store in a limited beta phase for users around the world, pre-installed on pixel 3 devices.
The sound amplifier is the other barrier-free application where the main purpose is to facilitate the sound produced in the user’s own environment by amplifying and reducing background noise. The user can use the application on his Android phone with wired headphones to filter, amplify and amplify the sounds of his environment as represented by Google.
The application itself provides a control panel where the user can make the appropriate settings with sliders and switches according to their listening needs.
Sound Amplifier is now available on the Google Play Store and is compatible with Android 9 Foot or higher, and will be pre-installed on Pixel 3 like Instant Transcription.
With these two new barrier-free applications, Google expects hearing impaired users, a group estimated by the World Health Organization to reach 900 million people worldwide by 2055, to become more independent in their daily lives.