Cellular Phone

By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Now here’s a clever idea, especially as the Baby Boomer generation starts reaching older age. Motorola has patented technology that automatically, based on vocal patterns, adjusts the audio for older people. Additionally, it changes the menu structure and increases the font size.

First the phone determines that the user is elderly by detecting speech acoustics based upon lower speech rate, and less energy and trembling within the speech utterances. Once recognized, the cell phone adjusts incoming audio by boosting the high frequency bands through audio processors while simultaneously increasing the power of the outgoing signal to improve intelligibility. Additionally, the graphical user interface is automatically changed to adjust based on visual characteristics of elderly users. Source: Mobiledia

We Say: I do need reading glasses now so the larger font might be helpful to me. :-) Seriously, this is a great idea, assuming it works and works well.