Google to launch project for people with hearing impairment – The Star Kenya
- The two-year project which incorporated with local partners and led by UCL’s Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub) will provide a mobile device to 500 people in each of the three countries.
- According to research by ATscale, 76 per cent of people in high-income countries own a mobile phone, but this figure drops to 45 per cent in low- and middle-income countries
The largest search engine Google is set to launch a project targeting people with vision, hearing, and other impairments in Kenya, India and Brazil.
Google says the project will enable the group to use smartphones and related mobile apps to read, for example, by adding colour and contrast to digital text, or even reading the text out loud.
“For people with hearing difficulties, apps can convert speech into text, filter out background noise, or even amplify the sound. And by installing multiple applications on a single phone, people can access multiple assistive technologies with a single device,” Google said.
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