Google Wants To Make Technology For Persons With Disabilities In The UK

Google has just opened its first research and development center in London, England. (photo: dock. google)

JAKARTA - Google has just opened its first research and development center in London, England. The company's move is dedicated to helping people with disabilities.

Dubbed the Center for Accessibility Discovery, it will not only be used for product research and development, but also has room for learning, with interactive zones and learning also available to visiting ones.

The tech giant is not alone, he is partnering with the Royal National Institute of Blind People, the Royal National Institute for Defense People, and the charity disability of Everyone Can. This is Google's first Center for Accessibility Discovery outside the United States (US).

"When people have fair access to information and opportunities, everyone wins, but we know people's needs continue to change, throughout their lives or even their days," said Google's Accessibility and Inclusion Disability team Christopher Patnoe.

Google has many research teams working on things like artificial intelligence, and a number of engineers are tasked with looking at supercharging-accessible technologies, making them more mainstream.

For example, subtitle technology, which was originally started to help deaf and hard-to-hear television audiences, is useful to everyone.

Launching BBC International, Monday, December 5, besides that, Google has also just launched a beta Project Relation version in the UK, this is an app that learns how to better recognize speech patterns than those who may have struggled.

Like people with muscle dystrophy and helping them communicate more easily. This is done by copying speech into text in real time, repeating someone's voice in synthesized voice and speaking to voice assistants.

"We've made encouraging progress on accessible technologies like Project Relations that help remove daily barriers facing people, but we know we still have a lot to do," explains Patnoe.