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Ava - Making conversations accessible for the deaf

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Ava empowers 400m deaf & hard-of-hearing people to 24/7 accessible conversations with their hearing peers.

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Damien
Beautiful product with an awesome technologie and mostly with a real value. Congrats to the whole team!
Thibault Duchemin
Maker
@damienromito Thanks for the kind words!!
Alexandre Jais
Way to go guys! Such a compelling use of technology.
Thibault Duchemin
Maker
@alexandrejais thanks a lot! so many other compelling uses still to hunt for :)
Vaibhav Krishna Irugu Guruswamy
I've been testing the beta for a while now, totally love the idea, this is huge help for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
Jacob Trefethen
Fantastic idea, nicely executed. I hadn't even realized that we're all carrying microphones with screens in our pocket that could pave the way for a solution like Ava - but now it seems obvious. A nice reminder that technology can improve lives in a big way. Well done to all on the Ava team.
Apurv Agrawal
Incredible story and product! All the best team.
Tristan Tao
Game changing app and a founder with a great story. Keep going!
Pieter Doevendans
Maker
@tao_tristan Thanks! I want to take the opportunity to mention our co-founder, and CTO, Skinner, who is rarely in the foreground, but is the most incredible developer! Since Skinner is also deaf, he is the very first user of Ava!
JESS3
Would be very cool for live speakers at events/talks to project onto a screen behind them.
Thibault Duchemin
Maker
@jess3 just a bit of patience :)
JESS3
@t_duchemin 🔜 Live video stream subtitles?
Johannes Köppel
Just downloaded it. Works much better than I ever expected, having used other voice recognition products. Huge congrats to Ava!!!
Thibault Duchemin
Maker
@johannes_koeppel thanks! happy to see Alex's fantastic work pay off here! You should try with multiple phones connected if you can, see how it holds on & detects the speaker!
Hameto
This is awesome! Accessibility-UX matters. Reminds me of Be My Eyes (http://www.bemyeyes.org/) Question: why is it important to have everyone download and opt-into the conversation? I bet it would improve quality in a crowded room / dinner table. But what about those ad hoc moments or when you're in a new group -- can you use voice-to-text from a single device and separate the different speakers algorithmically?
Thibault Duchemin
Maker
@hameto_ we love BeMyEyes too! that's exactly it for us as well: how using social dynamics in place to solve a problem together (our logo "&" reflects this thoughts of shared action). Great question re: this important use case of a "networking" moment. One of the answers is that you'd diminish the accuracy by behaviorally putting the microphones too far from the speakers. So it's not that much the identification who is really the issue here. The trade-off is: keeping accuracy at a high level or asking to the rest of the group to download an app. For now, Ava isn't optimal in these situations, but we have a few ideas we'll pursue on (& maybe come back here for!)
Bradley Tayne
This is such an amazing idea. Good luck to you all on your mission
Pieter Doevendans
Maker
@bradleytayne Thanks for the message. It's very challenging and extremely rewarding at the same time. Especially when we receive such awesome support from everyone around us. Super happy to see how it's helping us to get the word out.
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