Campuses worldwide are seeing the first few waves of students with hearing loss who were diagnosed at or just after birth and subsequently benefited from early intervention with digital hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. Now is the time for the global STEM community to leverage speech-to-text (S2T) technologies in new ways that can benefit everyone, including those with hearing loss.
By World Health Organization estimates, over 5% of the world’s population has disabling hearing loss. That number is expected to rise through 2050 and have a significant impact on the representation of people with hearing loss in STEM — less than one percent, according to a report of a NSF workshop.
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