Google researchers have developed a deep learning system that can pick out specific voices by looking at people’s faces when they’re speaking.
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Walkity Uses Haptic Feedback On Your Feet to Notify You the Direction While Walking
Walkity is a new shoe attachable that helps you navigate. It is two-piece wearable which works by using vibrational motors to generate haptic feedback. The generated feedback is used to notify turns and arrivals. Vibration on the left module indicates a left turn and vice versa. When both motors are active it indicates an arrival. A vigorous vibration will notify the user about the wrong path taken. The placement of vibrational motors causes NO tickles, unlike other similar products.
Essential Phone Gets Bluetooth 5 Support and Security Patch in Latest Update
Essential recently rolled out the latest Android security update for the Essential Phone with improvements that lets you dictate how apps treat the notch.
How to Use Alexa Announcements for Your Echo
Amazon recently rolled out a new feature called Alexa Announcements that allows one-way announcements to be made to every Echo device in a household.
New Google Phone App Beta Silences Spam Calls
The Google Phone app beta will give you early access to new features, including spam calls that will no longer make your phone ring at all.
CPqD Develops Pay Voice App to Help Blind Customers Make Card Payments
Brazil research institute CPqD has partnered with ABECS (Brazilian Association of Credit Card and Service Companies) to develop Pay Voice, a mobile application for visually impaired people who use payment cards.
How to Enable Amazon Alexa Brief Mode
What does this new Brief Mode option do? It simply turns Alexa’s voice confirmation into chimes. That means that your Echo device will make a chime and perform the action.
Visually Impaired Toddlers Explore and Learn with New Device
Blind toddlers have a hard time using traditional white canes, leading to accidents and injuries. Blind children starting to stand and take their first steps (as young as 11 months old) need safe mobility all the time so they can develop on par with their peers.
Blind Game Coming to PlayStation VR Later This Year
An independent game label called Surprise Attack, based out of Australia, has released a new trailer and details for Blind, releasing later this year for PlayStation VR and various other platforms.
How to Use Amazon’s Fire 7 and HD 8 tablets as Hands-Free Alexa Speakers
In the latest update for Amazon’s Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 tablets, you can now use them as hands-free Alexa speakers. This feature is already available on the Fire HD 10, and the company is now expanding it to other recent tablets released last year. Once the latest software update rolls out to the devices, you’ll be able to use Alexa’s full array of voice commands whenever the tablet’s display is turned on.
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