Photo credit: Courtesy of App MyEar
by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition
This article in the University of Rochester’s Rochester Review alumni magazine discusses a new app to translate personal conversations into text. The developer, Brandon Isobe, got the idea for the app because his father is deaf. The app, App MyEar, is pretty straight forward: you open the app, speak into the phone and the app translates the words into text. It’s “essentially closed captioning for personal conversations,” says Isobe.
It’s great that innovators are looking for ways to help people with hearing loss. Of course, for those of us who can hear, preventing hearing loss by avoiding noise exposure and using hearing protection if we can’t remains the best option.
DISCLOSURE: I am a graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
