Experts of the North-Caucasus have tested an innovation-based device for speech recognition. Charlie the Robot has been developed to help people with impaired hearing/deafblind people enjoy communication with anyone else.

Charlie can recognize speech delivered in Russia and then produces it as a text. The device has a mini-computer built in and several microphones that capture speech from up to two meters away at the same time cutting off any interference noise. The translation process takes around five seconds, after which the text is displayed on a TV-screen, a tablet or on a Braile display.

We wanted to developing a device that would be convenient for both people with hearing impairments and organizations. Now this device will make your company more accessible to deaf and deafblind people, – Denis Kuleshov, Director of the Sensor-Tech Laboratory was quoted as saying.

The device, first of all, will help NCFU students with hearing impairments, offering them a chance to communicate freely with teachers. Charlie is a portable robot, which will allow University students to test it in class for a month.