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New Technology Allows Hearing Impaired to Perceive Sound with Touch

DAEJEON, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean researchers have developed a “touch pitch system” that allows hearing-impaired people to recognize sounds with touch. The new technology analyzes the pitch, which is the height of a sound from the surrounding environment, as well as voices, and converts it into a tactile pattern. Cochlear implant surgery has [...]

Seoul City Introducing Onsite Dispatch of Stenographers for the Hearing-impaired

SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government will implement a “text-translation service” in which a stenographer will help people with a hearing impairment to communicate to land a job, navigate their career and practice self-development. The plan calls for sending a “text interpreter” – a stenographer – to help the hearing-impaired communicate [...]