Google’s Project Relate will help people with speech problems

Company Google without much publicity Project Relatewhich should help people with speech disorders due to serious illness. The information was provided by the portal 9to5Google.

Google is already looking for a project of English-speaking testers

One of the solutions that people with speech problems can communicate with their surroundings using a smartphone today is the usual text-to-speech. However, this method can often be lengthy and inconvenient. Project Relate should therefore allow people with impaired pronunciation to translate their voice into a more comprehensible form by simply dictating the text. At the same time, it should make it easier for them to interact with Google Now.

Google is already actively looking for English-speaking testers for this project in four countries – the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Google has worked on the same idea in recent years. Project Euphonia aimed to better understand people with speech disorders due to diseases such as ALS, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, stroke or traumatic brain injury.

The Relate application will have three functions

Despite the introduction of the project, you will not find its application in the Google Play store yet. Google has not yet announced when this happens. The project application should have three functions as described:

• Listening to: With the Relate application, Relate transcribes your speech into text in real time, so you can copy and paste text into other applications or let people read what you want to tell them.
• Repeat: You can use the Repeat function to repeat what you have said with a clear, synthesized voice. This can be especially useful in a personal meeting or when you want to give a command to a smart device with a voice assistant at home.
• Assistant: This feature allows you to talk directly to Google Now from the Relate app and give them various tasks, such as turning on lights or playing a song.