Google introduces sophisticated new tools to help people with hearing loss understand what's going on around them

Google wants to make Android phones effective tools for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Today, the giant research company has launched two new services Transcribe AndSound amplifierBoth are designed to help people with hearing loss communicate more easily.

C & # 39; Live Transcribe As the name implies, it uses your phone's microphone to create annotations that appear automatically on the screen. Sound amplifierYou can use your phone and headphones to improve the clarity of speech around you.

To develop new products, Google said working with a university Gallaudet, A private school in Washington DC for the hearing impaired.

"Technology is a matter of integrating and empowering users, whatever their capabilities, and with new technologies our products and services will become better and more useful," said Yves Anderson, Manager from the Google Computer Learning team.

The following is a version Live Transcribe While Google heavily relies on natural language processing and computer learning for its new projects, last month at an exhibition THESE, The world's largest technology exhibition revealed by Google InterpreterThis allows a Google assistant to provide direct translations to two people speaking different languages.