The promise of technology as a force for good is rarely clearer than in companies’ development of features to help people with disabilities.
Google announced Tuesday that it was releasing two new accessibility features for Android 9 Pie and Pixel phones.
The first is a live-transcription feature, which turns speech into text on a phone’s screen. The second is a customizable sound amplifier, that lets users choose to increase the volume of some sounds while decreasing others. Both could enable people who are deaf or hard of hearing to use their phones to assist in everyday life. Read more…
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