![]() We thought: What if we used cloud-based automatic speech recognition to display spoken words on a screen? A prototype was built and Googlers across a bunch of our offices-from Mountain View to Taipei-got involved. That inspired Chet to work with the Accessibility team to build a tool that could reduce Dimitri’s effort spent preparing for conversations. This meant Dimitri could only use CART for formal business meetings or events, and not everyday conversations. Dimitri’s teammate, Chet Gnegy, saw the challenges Dimitri faced using CART: he always carried multiple devices, it was costly and each meeting required a lot of preparation. One of them is CART: a service where a captioner virtually joins a meeting to listen and create a transcription of spoken dialogue, which then displays on a computer screen. Through his work, Dimitri-who has been deaf since early childhood-has helped shape the accessibility technologies he relies on. ![]() Bringing captions to conversations with Live Transcribeĭimitri Kanevsky is a research scientist at Google who has worked on speech recognition and communications technology for the last 30 years. Today, we’re introducing two new apps for Android designed to help deaf and hard-of-hearing people: Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier. We believe in the power of technology to help break down barriers and make life a little easier for everyone. The World Health Organization estimates that by the year 2055, there will be 900 million people with hearing loss.
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