Masks making it hard to understand people either audibly or because you rely on lip reading? Just got this hacked together - it displays my speech in real time with @DeepgramAI! pic.twitter.com/lPu4CZboIk
— Kevin Lewis (he/him) (@_phzn) January 4, 2022
Do you wear a facemask on a regular basis? One of the challenges that this presents is that people who read lips to communicate can't see what you're saying. I've seen people use masks with transparent centers to help, but these often fog over.
Computer programmer Kevin Lewis has responded to this need with an amazingly accurate speech-to-text recognition app that uses the Deepgram AI. I've never seen a speech-to-text transcription tool as accurate as this one. Lewis displays that text in realtime on a screen on his chest so that people who lipread can just read what he's saying. It's like living with subtitles turned on.
-via Hack A Day
What I'd want is something you can run on your local machine and without having to send all your audio to some third party service that violates the privacy of everyone around you.