About this app

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 modes helps hard of hearing people to make phone calls and to understand what the other person in the call will say. Two helpers modes are provided: one for home phones and the other for smartphone/tablets.

The application requires no subscription and is not dependant to any server connection. No internet or wifi connection is needed except for mode 3 & 4 in order to get good results.

All data remains locally on the device.

The free version of the application is available with ads , limits the connected mode simultaneous connections to 2, doesn't provide modes 3 and mode 4 home phone helper and limits mode 4 smartphone helper to 2 messages . The paid version of the application displays no ads , allows up to 4 simultaneous connections of contacts with the hard of hearing person and support fully 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.

New features

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