There are more than 300 million people worldwide suffering from significant hearing loss, Q System has been designed to help them to feel the sounds that they are missing. Q is a wearable captioning device that displays text and graphed emotions, making it easier for hearing impaired people to communicate with others. The system consists of a band that can be worn on user’s hand, an array microphone clip worn on user’s clothing, a special app for smartphone or tablet, and a charging unit.
When someone talks to someone who’s wearing Q, voice is captured by the array microphone, transported to the band via Bluetooth, and then translated to text using voice recognition software. The OLED screen would display the text, user can activate 4 features using finger commands: transcript recording, emoticaptioning, touch speech, and bookmarking.
Designer : Daniela Cardona, Jeff Smith, Leah Demeter, and Emin Demirci
Transcript recording means that user can record a conversation or transcript, emotiocaptioning feature would display speaker’s volume, frequency, duration of sound, in one easy-to-read graph. The touch speech means that user can activate phonetic sounds, while bookmarking feature allows user to mark moment in the conversation for future reference. This device offers user more independence, allowing them to understand a more complete conversation with added emotion.
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Mass produce, must for all hearing impaired persons, see LA School for the Deaf etc, Mass produce, esp for PD & FD & EMT, Social workers, teachers, campus security, other alone,.
Does your company also make hearing aids that that go together with this captioning device that you sell. How much does your captioning device cost? If you also sell hearing aids, how much does your hearing aids cost?
Look, this article, also seen on Core77, was available to read back in September of 2016…….over 2 and a half years ago!!! Has there been any updates, where are the updates…… of this technology?
Where is this technology……NOW???? Was it a pipe dream? Did it fall through? Is it still something that only exists on paper?
Is it available yet for marketing?
For purchase? How much is this technology?
As far as we know, this project is still just a concept. You might want to contact one of designers to get an update of this project.
How do I purchase the device
Hello I am deaf and I am wondering how can I get one of these devices or are they accessible to purchase in the store
Hi Pamela, it's only concept.
Is this device available yet
Unfortunately no.