This Smartwatch App Alerts Deaf People About Surrounding Sounds

This Smartwatch App Alerts Deaf People About Surrounding Sounds

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The researchers tested the SoundWatch app in March 2020 in Washington with eight d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants.















Smartwatches offer people a private method for getting notifications about their surroundings“”such as a phone call, health alerts, and many others.

Now University of Washington researchers have developed SoundWatch, a smartwatch app that records the sounds surrounding the user, and then sends him a notification that identify these sounds, the German News Agency reported.

According to the TechXplore website, when the smartwatch picks up a sound the user is interested in“”examples include a siren, an appliance beeping or a bird chirping“”SoundWatch will identify it and send the user a friendly buzz along with information about