Case Study: Columbia University helps people with disabilities communicate with Google for Education and Google Cloud Platform

With Google Cloud Platform, a team of Columbia students help people with disabilities communicate

Columbia University students set out to make phone communication more accessible for people who are speech- or hearing-impaired. Using Google for Education and Google Cloud Platform, they explored how to bridge spoken and written communication in a way that could help people communicate more easily in real time.

Google for Education helped the team build Nagish, an app that uses Google Cloud’s Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech APIs, along with Twilio and messaging integrations, to convert calls and texts between voice and text. With GCP Education credits, the students built a demo in just 12 hours and earned Second Place overall plus Best Hack for Social Good at the Columbia University hackathon.

Columbia University

Tomer Aharoni

Columbia University