The Diversity Promotion Office (hereinafter referred to as the Promotion Office) has begun operating UD Talk, previously used by the Accessibility Support Center as a classroom support tool for students with hearing impairments, as an information support tool for lectures, events, and similar occasions.UD Talk is an app that leverages speech recognition and automatic translation to visualize conversations by converting spoken words into text. By downloading this app to your smartphone, tablet, or other device, you can display captured audio information as text.
▲ This is the screen in Japanese
A briefing session attended by five employees from the Waseda University Academic Solutions Extension Center team was held on July 16 to cover basic operations and effective usage methods and to allow participants to understand the app through firsthand experience. Similar sessions have been held at five locations on campus up to the time of the writing of this article. Anyone interested in learning more about UD Talk may contact the Promotion Office , even without a specific request for information support.
*Although the app is free to use, external equipment such as microphones to capture sound and interfaces to display text may be desired by some users. The costs of purchasing such equipment will be borne by the organizers of the relevant lectures and other events. The Promotion Office may have equipment available to rent and may be contacted with inquiries.
