[access-uk] An Always-Listening App That Alerts the Hearing Impaired to Alarms | Gizmodo UK
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- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:07:38 +0100
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An Always-Listening App That Alerts the Hearing Impaired to Alarms
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In an ideal world, every audible alarm would include a visual indication that
something was wrong, so that the hearing impaired would immediately be notified
too. Until that happens, a cheap £0.69 app called Deafalarm could serve as a
viable alternative—keeping an ear out for alarms and alerting the user through
text and vibrating alerts.
Like Shazam's song-recognising app that can now be set to listen 24/7,
Deafalarm runs in the background on your iPhone, constantly listening for
repetitive sounds that indicate an audible alarm is going off. When one is
recognized, the app provides a vibrating alert in addition to an on-screen
notification that something might be amiss.
The app will also vibrate if it's been shut down accidentally, or if the
iPhone's battery has dropped so low that it will shut down, so a user knows
that Deafalarm is no longer listening. And while there's the chance the app
might be fooled by non-alarms, that's a minor inconvenience for the times when
it's right. [iTunes App Store via Medgadget]
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