The wearable badge first captures the speaker’s voice and transmits it to a smartphone. Next, the smartphone converts the audio to text and transmits it to the smart badge. The smart badge then displays the text like closed captions.
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Badger by Satellite Displays
Edition 85, April 2023
Satellite Displays’ Badger is a closed captioning smart badge that is used to convert speech to text in real time in more than 50 languages.
It helps those with hearing loss follow conversations more easily when the other person is wearing the Badger badge, especially in circumstances where lip reading is impossible if the person speaking is wearing a face mask, such as in healthcare settings.