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professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies that improve communicationse who have difficulty speaking. it's very much like the predictive text on your phone, but as we saw when we invited her onto the stage... words... it can be a very slow process. limit... telling a story in real time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our focus on communicating aids is on typing eight to ten words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation at that speed? annalu's team, in partnership with cambridge university, has created a new system that remembers what you've typed before and offers up whole sentence chunks in one go. it's hard to find whole sentences to use as i speak. as humans, we always retell stories. so what i'm telling you now, i've told many people before. and this is where it gets even more clever. a body worn camera observes where annalu is and who she is speaking to. it can then suggest sentences that are relevant to that situation. so, this is the computer vision brain behind the system. the camera i have in my right hand here is the o
professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies that improve communicationse who have difficulty speaking. it's very much like the predictive text on your phone, but as we saw when we invited her onto the stage... words... it can be a very slow process. limit... telling a story in real time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our focus on communicating aids is on typing eight to ten words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation at...
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professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies to improve communicationvery much like the predictive text on your phone, but, as we saw when we invited her onto the stage... robotic voice: words. ..it can be a very slow process. actually telling a story in real—time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our focused communication aids only type 8—10 words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation in that speed? annalu's team, in partnership with cambridge university, has created a new system that remembers what you've typed before and offers up whole sentence chunks in one go. it's hard to find whole sentences to use as i speak. applause so, as humans, we always re—tell stories. so what i'm telling you now, i've told many people before. and this is where it gets even more clever. a body—worn camera observes where annalu is and who she's speaking to. it can then suggest sentences that are relevant to that situation. so, this is the computer vision brain behind our system. the camera i've got in my right hand here is the one the person wears
professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies to improve communicationvery much like the predictive text on your phone, but, as we saw when we invited her onto the stage... robotic voice: words. ..it can be a very slow process. actually telling a story in real—time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our focused communication aids only type 8—10 words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation in that speed? annalu's team, in...
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professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies to improve communicationive text on your phone, but, as we saw when we invited her onto the stage... robotic voice: words. ..it can be a very slow process. actually telling a story in real—time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our focused communication aids only type at 8—10 words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation in that speed? annalu‘s team, in partnership with cambridge university, has created a new system that remembers what you‘ve typed before and offers up whole sentence chunks in one go. it‘s hard to find whole sentences to use as i speak. applause so, as humans, we always re—tell stories. so what i'm telling you now, i've told many people before. and this is where it gets even more clever. a body—worn camera observes where annalu is and who she‘s speaking to. it can then suggest sentences that are relevant to that situation. so, this is the computer vision brain behind our system. the camera i‘ve got in my right hand here is the one the person wears around their neck, so
professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies to improve communicationive text on your phone, but, as we saw when we invited her onto the stage... robotic voice: words. ..it can be a very slow process. actually telling a story in real—time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our focused communication aids only type at 8—10 words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation in that speed? annalu‘s team, in partnership with...
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professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies to improve communicationive text on your phone, but, as we saw when we invited her onto the stage... robotic voice: words. ..it can be a very slow process. actually telling a story in real—time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our focussed communication aids only type 8—10 words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation in that speed? annalu‘s team, in partnership with cambridge university, has created a new system that remembers what you‘ve typed before and offers up whole sentence chunks in one go. it‘s hard to find whole sentences to use as i speak. so, as humans we always tell stories. so what i'm telling you now, i've told many people before. and this is where it gets even more clever. a body—worn camera observes where annalu is and who she‘s speaking to. it can then suggest sentences that are relevant to that situation. so, this is the computer vision brain behind our system. the camera i‘ve got in my right hand here is the one the person wears around their neck, so the camera can
professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies to improve communicationive text on your phone, but, as we saw when we invited her onto the stage... robotic voice: words. ..it can be a very slow process. actually telling a story in real—time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our focussed communication aids only type 8—10 words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation in that speed? annalu‘s team, in partnership with cambridge...
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professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies to improve communications very much like the predictive text on your phone, but, as we saw when we invited her onto the stage... robotic voice: ..words... ..it can be a very slow process. actually telling a story in real—time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our focussed communication aids only type 8—10 words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation in that speed? annalu's team, in partnership with cambridge university, has created a new system that remembers what you've typed before and offers up whole sentence chunks in one go. it's hard to find whole sentences to use as i speak. so, as humans we always tell stories. so what i'm telling you now, i've told many people before. and this is where it gets even more clever. a body—worn camera observes where annalu is and who she's speaking to. it can then suggest sentences that are relevant to that situation. so, this is the computer vision brain behind our system. the camera i've got in my right hand here is the one the person wears aroun
professor annalu waller has dedicated 30 years of her life to researching technologies to improve communications very much like the predictive text on your phone, but, as we saw when we invited her onto the stage... robotic voice: ..words... ..it can be a very slow process. actually telling a story in real—time is laborious, time—consuming. a lot of our focussed communication aids only type 8—10 words a minute. how on earth do you conduct a real conversation in that speed? annalu's team,...