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Gizmorama - October 8, 2014
Good Morning, A new app for Google Glass can actually caption conversations. I'm sure most of the conversations to be captioned will be about why one of the people in the conversation is wearing Google Glass.
Learn about this and more interesting stories from the scientific community in today's issue.
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GopherArchives****-- New app for Google Glass can caption conversations --*ATLANTA (UPI) - A new Google Glass app makes it easier for people with hearing impairments to understand what someone is saying by captioning the conversation.
Georgia Institute of Technology released the Captioning on Glass app, which is meant to caption conversations in real time to help people with hearing impairments.
Google Glass can't accurately pick up external voices at this point, so it links with a free Android app allowing the person talking to the Google Glass wearer to speak into the phone's microphone. Instead of trying to read lips or have a person speak more loudly, the Google Glass wearer can hand their phone to the person they're talking with and read the conversation as it happens.
Users can also read back over the conversation for anything they missed. The same team is also working on an Android app that provides two-way translations for English, Russian, Spanish, French, Korean and Japanese and can link to your Google Glass.
*-- Scientists are closer to understanding human height --*(UPI) - Scientists believe they now have a better understanding of what determines height in humans. An international group of researchers came together and studied a group of over 250,000 people from different regions of the world. They located over 400 genome regions that appear to be related to determining height, and they found almost 700 genetic variants.
The research, published in Nature Genetics, claims that around 80 percent of human height is based on genes, while the remaining 20 percent is based on external factors like diet. The researchers involved believe these findings could help treat diseases that can be related to height, like osteoporosis. The study further supports the concept that height is largely based on genetics, as is seen by tall parents bearing taller children. The found genes might help scientists study rare syndromes that cause children to grow unusually tall or unusually little.
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