{"id":50793,"date":"2012-05-23T13:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T11:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=50793"},"modified":"2012-05-23T14:02:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T12:02:47","slug":"google-glasses-enabled-for-deaf-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/50793-google-glasses-enabled-for-deaf-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Glasses enabled for deaf users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google\u2019s<\/a> futuristic augmented reality glasses are said to feature capabilities that assist hearing-impaired users in interpreting words and sounds.<\/p>\n<p>A newly-filed patent shows that the Google Glasses can recognise and interpret sounds based on their frequency and pitch. The glasses&#8217; heads-up display will then indicate where the sound is coming from, helping deaf users locate noise sources.<\/p>\n<p>The lenses are also said to be able to translate words into text for the user, such as nearby dialogue being converted into speech text for a user with hearing disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The patent is titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;u=%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-adv.htm&amp;r=59&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;d=PTXT&amp;s1=google&amp;p=2&amp;OS=google&amp;RS=google\">Displaying sound indications on a wearable computing system<\/a>&#8220;, although there is no known current demonstration for the system at this time.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Arstechnica - Google glasses patent\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2012\/05\/google-glasses-patent-hints-at-speech-to-text-display-for-deaf-users\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arstechnica<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google files a patent which hints at speech-to-text displays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":50801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[11925,167,10462],"class_list":["post-50793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-augmented-reality","tag-google","tag-google-glasses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50813,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50793\/revisions\/50813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}