An analysis of the current state of realtime captioning on Google Glass.

1. NCRA TechCon 2014

2. Who Am I?
Mirabai Knight, RDR, CCP
• Sole Proprietor: StenoKnight CART Services, New York, NY
• Strategic Partner: White Coat Captioning, LLC
• Founder: The Plover Project/The Open Steno Project

3. Why I Bought Glass
 Cyberpunk Childhood
 Tax-Deductible
 Gadget Hound
 National Novel Writing Month

4. Glass Right Now
 Up and to the right
 Explorer Edition:
Only the rich
and geeky
 Consumer model
specs and price
still unknown
 Emphasis on camera
and voice interface

5. Captioning on Glass
 Streamtext & 1CapApp
 Ideal for clinical rounds
 Enhances rapport
 Preserves eye contact
 Hands-free and mobile
 Conversational review

6. How I’ll Use Glass
 Deaf/HoH dental, medical,
and veterinary students
 Clients requiring discretion
 When interpreters
aren’t appropriate
 Art school critiques
 Museum tours
 Networking mixers
 Orientation events

9. Limitations
 Eye strain
 Sanitization
 Glasses/contacts
 Multiple clients
 Four-hour battery life
 Dim in bright sunlight
 Aesthetic considerations
 No captioning direct to Glass
 Seven lines of text at a time
 Internal microphone
might not be sufficient
 Not true augmented reality
 Two-second Streamtext delay
 Wi-Fi or Bluetooth
phone tethering required
 Who pays for breakage?

10. Glass: A Segway For Your Face?

11. Pushback
 Conspicuous Consumption
 #throughglass Campaign
 Internet Harrassment
 Privacy Violations
 Silicon Valley Elite
 Travel Hazard
 Smug
No
Glass
Sans
Camera

12. Legal Implications
Tech Writer Sarah Slocum Entrepreneur Cecilia Abadie

13. Rarity Versus Ubiquity
Four Futures:
 Lots of people who wear it always
 Lots of people who wear it sometimes
 A few people who wear it always
 A few people who wear it sometimes
 How can you beat a cell phone?
 What will be the killer app?
 Higher volume, lower cost
 Critical mass required for
assumption of ownership
 Social mores and rules of etiquette

14. More Accessibility Options
 Conversational
text-to-speech with
walkaround steno
 Head-mounted
interface ideal
for wheelchairs
 Braille display
 Theater and Sports
Alex Blaszczuk, Law Student

15. Courtrooms and Depo Rooms
 Autobrief display
 Disabling the camera
 Bench conferences
 Video backup
 Quick exhibit photography
 Googling for spellings
Macon County Court Reporters

16. Other Applications
 Sending secret
messages
 Following depos
while golfing
 English-to-English
captioning
 Simultaneous
captioning of multiple
conference tracks
 Live animated GIFs at
open captioned events

17. Wearable Realtime Beyond Glass
 Shirts
 Watches
 Portable projectors
 HUD Contact Lenses

18. We’re Gonna Have to See
 Will the look get less nerdy?
 Will the cost come down?
 Will the social stigma flip?
 Will the battery life improve?
 Will it become true
augmented reality?
 Do we need it?

19. Questions/Demo
 Any questions?
 Pass It Around