Realtime speech to text translation during sacrament meeting

If you know someone who struggles with severe hearing loss or understanding other people (intelligibility of speech) when they talk, APPLE iphones 11-18 have a feature that can help. It's called LIVE CAPTIONS. You can sit anywhere in the chapel with JUST your iphone and read the text of what is spoken at the pulpit IN REALTIME !!

With Live Captions on iPhone, you can get a real-time transcription of spoken audio. Use Live Captions to more easily follow the audio in any app, such as FaceTime or Podcasts, as well as live conversations around you.


HOW TO Set up and customize Live Captions

1) Go to the Settings app on your iPhone.

2) Tap Accessibility, tap Live Captions, then turn on Live Captions.

3) Tap Appearance to customize the text, size, and color of the captions.

Learn more from the APPLE documentation at
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/ ... 90f7bb/ios

There's also several youtube videos that explain it.

The CHROME browser on Windows can also do realtime speech to text translation of any video you play in a browser window. It can also translate english to a few other languages in realtime.

I heard that the church is looking into real-time audio translation technology for meetings, such as sacrament meeting. I was guessing that might be audio to audio, as opposed to audio to text. You bring up another important need, and that is audio to text. Some people need that. Several years ago, we had someone in our ward experimenting with speech-to-text to help a deaf member, and I'm sure the technology is better now. Hopefully whoever is investigating such technology considers the speech-to-text needs, too. I don't know which department is investigating such needs or how to get feedback to them.