Google's Look To Speak Taps Gaze-Tracking AI To Help Users With Impairments Communicate (venturebeat.com) 11
Google today launched an experimental app for Android that leverages AI to make communication more accessible for people with speech and motor impairments. Called Look to Speak, it tracks eye movements to let people use their eyes to select prewritten, customizable phrases and have them spoken aloud. From a report: Approximately 18.5 million people in the U.S. have a speech, voice, or language impairment. Eye gaze-tracking devices can provide a semblance of independence, but they're often not portable and tend to be expensive. The entry-level Tobii 4C eye tracker starts at $150, for instance. To address this need, speech and language therapist Richard Cave began collaborating with a small group at Google to develop Look to Speak. The app, which is available for free and compatible with Android 9.0 and above, enables users to glance left, right, or up to select what they wish to say from a phrase list. With Look to Speak, people can personalize the words and sentences on their list and adjust eye gaze sensitivity settings. Google says the app's data remains private and never leaves the phone on which it's installed.
You are under arrest, citizen! (Score:2)
We are aware that you rolled your eyes when Dear Leader was speaking.
Re: You are under arrest, citizen! (Score:2)
Especially with false positives. And snitches.
Did you know that you can get anyone banned on YouTube, by just randomly reporting him from many unrelated user accounts, regardless of what he actually did, ... and the "review process" is entirely controlled by another shitty excuse for a neural net? (What does it consider that the previous one couldn't have? The statistical likeliness of certain words in your appeal??)
By the way: You can buy CAPTCHA entries and account creations by the thousands in China, Rus
Not new. (Score:3)
But this time with rampaging privacy violations for people who cannot even express they don't want to be abused.
Amazing! A new age dawns! /s
Dasher? (Score:3)
Parsing difficulty (Score:3, Insightful)
It won't last (Score:2)
This could be very useful. (Score:2)
I'd like to see this feature used to have the window I'm looking at be in focus. Countless times, I've hit ^S or ^Q or something, and *AUGH* the window that was in focus wasn't the one I was looking at!
Ubelieveable (Score:2)
First we have AI that can't recognize black people and now we have one that deliberately focuses on gaze?
C'mon guys this is the 21st centurey, we can be better tahn this.
Re: (Score:2)
You've obviously never understood irony, Mr Pedant.
I actually come from a century where people knew how to spell, write, and compose sentences without a web-app to think for them. Thus writing in deliberate gibberish-format would be to make a POINT.
Duh.