I Get You - Deafness - lite on Windows Pc

This app helps hard of hearing or deaf people to communicate with other people.

It transforms speech to text and display it with a default tunable big text size for people with not optimal vision capability, which may be the case for old people.

The application is as simple as possible to be usable by non tech people.

It offers several operating modes to fit to the different use cases depending on the type of devices used but also to fit to the conversation context and the number of people involved in it.

These modes are:


1) Not connected conversation mode: the application runs on a smartphone or a tablet which goes from the hands of the person who speaks to the hands of the hard of hearing person who reads the speech turned into text.

2) Connected conversation mode: the hard of hearing person and the other people have each the application running on their smartphone or tablet. All devices are connected with Bluetooth. The words from each person are displayed by the application of the hard of hearing person with a different color and his/her photo. This mode is convenient for family dinner conversations.

3) Always listening mode: the application do speech recognition and display the result in real time. This mode for good results requests optimum utterance conditions and an internet connection. This mode is available only in the paid version.

4) Phone Call mode helps hard of hearing people to make phone calls and to understand what the other person in the call will say as the words will be displayed on the screen of the smarphone/tablet. This mode request another phone with a high quality loudspeaker. This mode is available only in the paid version.

The basic free (lite) application requires no subscription and is not dependant to any server connection. No internet or wifi connection is needed except for mode 3 in order to get good enough results.

All data remains locally on the device.

The basic free (lite) version of the application is available with ads , limits the connected mode simultaneous connections to 2 and doesn't provide modes 3 and 4; with subscription you can remove these limitations like in the paid version of the application that displays no ads , allows up to 4 simultaneous connections of contacts with the hard of hearing person and support mode 3 and 4.

I have created that application when my father became almost deaf. Tired to be forced to use a piece of paper and a pen for being able to communicate with him when close to him, or to send him letters when far from him (as phone calls were no longer possible), I had the idea of this application.

I hope it could be helpful for people facing similar situation.


This Application may use personal data only to grant the services it provides as described in the Privacy Policy sections.
You have full control on that data usage as described in the following. The personal data usage is dependent :
- on the activation by you of the services that are using them, which by default are disabled in the Settings menu,
- and on the related permissions that you may allow after the installation of the application.

In addition,
- that application doesn't collect any data for commercial purpose or any other purpose.
- that application is not connected to any remote server, all data is stored in the application and doesn't get out.
- Android platform security mechanisms grant that the access to these data is forbidden to any other application installed on your device
- if you like to erase these data, this is possible from the settings menu of your mobile / tablet. In the Apps section, select that application name, then the storage item and finally the Clear data option.

Various improvements and Fixing one bug
-New design of the paired or scanned Bluetooth devices lists.
-Update of the process to get the application SMS Simple now compatible of new Google Play store rules.
-Asking for permission BLUETOOTH CONNECT for Android 12 and above, was lacking when activating NFC feature as Bluetooth connectivity helper

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Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows an application to broadcast sticky intents.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.