RADIO FOR DEAF PEOPLE
Radio text
The text is broadcast alongside the voice transmission
Radio demonstration
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Millions of people around the world miss out on the joys of radio because they are hearing impaired.
But a new initiative by National Public Radio, technology firm Harris Corporation and Towson University aims to change that.
The consortium is developing radio for deaf people, a counter-intuitive sounding system that translates speech radio into text in real time.
At the moment the voice to text conversion has to be done by typists but could one day be automatic.
The information is then broadcast alongside the voice transmission and displayed on a screen on the radio.
The consortium will transmit the first live broadcast at CES using a prototype radio that has a screen large enough to display big swathes of text.
They expect the first commercial radios to be available towards the end of this year
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