NALscribe is an easy-to-use live speech captioning tool to help people with hearing difficulties understand speech and conversations, designed to increase hearing accessibility and inclusivity for all users.

National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) developed NALscribe to increase understanding and decrease stress levels for the hard of hearing and those communicating with them.

NALscribe is especially beneficial when the person speaking is wearing a mask or face-shield, when communication is more difficult because the lips are hidden and sound is muffled.

Full functionality is available to anyone to download and use – at no cost to install or run.

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California School for the Deaf, Riverside
“This is such an exciting breakthrough for school communications!”

—Erika Thompson, Outreach Coordinator, California School for the Deaf, Riverside

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Live Transcribe https://www.android.com/accessibility/live-transcribe/ is a new voice to text application that allows the hearing to communicate with the deaf and hearing impaired. We have used it extensively since it was in beta mode and find it very good. The creators partnered with Gallaudet University in Washington, DC for user input, and are using Google technology and Artificial Intelligence to power the application. Its user interface is simple and black and white. Currently Live Transcribe is available for Android devices. It has yet to be offered for iOS.

The Ava app https://www.ava.me allows for realtime text to speech to help the deaf and hearing impaired communicate with he hearing world. It allows the user to pick up on the conversations going on around him or her.

Video of how to use Ava: https://www.ava.me/ Currently Ava is available for use on both Android and iOS platforms. Thus you can use it on your Android phone or iPhone.

Alexa https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=10983873031
Amazon’s Alexa now allows for the input of specific commands through typing. There is also a captioning feature as well.

Google Keyboard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.latin&hl=en_GB
The Google Keyboard or Goboard is free to download for both iOS and Android devices. It provides predictive text, easy google search, fast text input and other benefits to users.

Zoom https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207279736-Closed-Captioning
Zoom offers closed captioning. Its manual and must be typed by the host or an assistant to the host or another participant in the conference call.

MotionSaavy http://www.motionsavvy.com/
MotionSaavy is the world’s first technological solution that translates sign language into grammatically correct spoken language.

CHILDREN VL2Storybook Apps http://vl2storybookapps.com/
This new application brings together English and American Sign Language (ASL) so that children can learn both through stories. It allows them to “watch” or “read” a story.

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