Through our specially developed platform, we provide the best-possible support in lessons to those with hearing impairments. The audio from the teacher is transmitted to the online speech-to-text interpreter. They convert the spoken words into text, live, and the users with hearing impairments read this text on their laptop or tablet.

In Switzerland, many young people with a hearing impairment are well supplied with hearing aids, FM devices, etc. However, it is still difficult for them to follow teachers in lessons. Background noise, fast talkers or different languages become a challenge.

Through respeaking, we turn the spoken language into text. Our trained experts repeat the teacher’s text with punctuation and in a simplified form. The automatically converted text is checked manually straightaway and corrected where necessary.

Through this method, we have been able to help a great number of students with hearing impairments to complete their studies with success.

More information about how the SWISS TXT service works can be found in the videos and fact sheet.

SWISS TXT makes content accessible for the hard of hearing, for the visually impaired, for television, for politics, for events.

Additional info

• Interview with Roxanna Treier, student and user, in the SVEHK March 2024 bulletin

• ETH Zurich interview with Jan Blum, undergraduate with hearing impairment, in February 2023

• Article on “Subtitle editing in Zurich” (in German) in Sonos magazine from June 2022

• Article on online speech-to-text interpreting (in German) in Sonos magazine from March 2022

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