Ava: Seamless conversation experience for Deaf & hard-of-hearing

Wow...amazing

This looks very interesting and I've funded with great hopes.  Thank you for focusing on a modern technology solution.

Awesome! it would lead to promotion my present position to new position.

Oh c'est trop cool! Je le veux !!

Amazing!! 

The idea is great, but it would be smarter if you only use one device with voice recognition. The problem is with the main idea is, people have to download/buy your app and have a smart phone, and 2 people out of ten is a douche and won't download anything for the new guy in the group. I know it's much harder with voice recognition, but it's still possible.

Hi, what about other languages? Will be other nonenglish languages supported in time? I'm deaf, and app like this would help me a lot in group convos, where it's hard for me to keep up. And what about talking with someone who doesn't have a mobile phone, can it still listen both speakers? Thanks in forward and greetings, Luka

I'm a linguistic student who also has snhl. Phonetics/phonology class was difficult because I couldn't hear certain combinations of sounds. Also in my classes as well as my old job (bookstore at a training center) we interacted with a lot of ESL speakers. Would your app be able to pick up (and understand/interpret) those differences? What about other languages? What about those without smartphones? Would it be affordable to lower-income people? Obviously this is just a starting ground but I am VERY interested to see how this technology develops.

Thank you! This app will change the world for people with hearing loss. 
Great to see you at the HLAA Convention 2015.

Ann Thomas
Trustee
HLAA-CA

This will be good for those who aren't deaf/hoh too. I have high functioning autism and auditory processing disorder, and remembering conversations too. Only thing is my reading isn't that great. So I would hope that we can save conversations and also be able to scroll back to read it, etc. Also for those that mumble (like me) and accents, etc. would that mis-translate what they would say too? :)

Thanks for your comment Rock2Hal, we appreciate your interest in Ava! Your feedback is valuable for us, we will for sure think about that :).

You're hard to understand -- and I'm not deaf. Speaking of "doing better," couldn't you get someone who speaks English to do the English narration?

what is apps called!??? I can't find any links!

I would love to have this.....Is this app even out or are they still working on it?

Fantastica soluzione, congratulazione,

As someone who is hard of hearing I must say the booming background bass was a bit brutal

Is it available in French ( I mean French speech recognition) ?

Totally useless video for us hard-of-hearing people without
captions!!

I know that English is the language you focus on, but what other languages are supported?

wish set up in New Zealand look great

This article published on October 13, 2014. Any update news this year?

I am deaf. I am from Madurai, Tamil nadu, India. & Ava is awesome app. thank you

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Can someone please make a smartphone-type device dedicated SOLELY to speech recognition software like AVA (and maybe texting), but very simple otherwise? There is a whole group of senior citizens out there who are hard of hearing, but they can't handle the complexities of a smartphone. I'm thinking of something like a Pocket Talker, but just for speech recognition converted to text. Something with an on/off switch, display screen, microphone button, send button, and NOT MUCH MORE!!!

Plz Start Ava Services in India via Google Play

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Since I am hard of hearing and American Sign Language like France in my life, I hadn't been spoken with Phonetics/phonology . I studied about Spoken Language as likeness as any Spanish, France and other to use Phonetic by lip speech and voice to hear. The most of popular is Sign Language to help children or Babies who have been problem with Dyslexia , Loss Hearing age and Aphasia of Speech to help development for reason that They reduced with problem in future. I just honest in the world about which most of Dr. Doctors or Medicals didn't let Children and babies to take Sign Language. If not, online Deaf Culture!

:44 is way too real. I'm not anti-social or on any spectrum, but when you're hard of hearing it's near impossible sometimes to follow even basic conversations. With a lot of ambient noises, especially white noises, in the background? I grew up not having a lot of friends and not interacting with people much because of that, and even now I tend to avoid it because for the most part it's just too hard to communicate with people. You guys really understand that, I appreciate that even just being acknowledged, much less the premise of this video. I have to check this app out.

That app works for deaf people and hard of hearing people. I am deaf techie i try that app but it not for me so i decided to support your team.

I lost my hearing several weeks ago now am totally deaf. I have tried to get someone from AVA to explain to me ( 86 years) how to get the annual community program on my iphone. If there is anyone that can explain it to me in plain English, I'm really dumb about social messaging but can with a little help figure it out.