People listening to the radio could benefit from a new technology: see text messages on the radio instantly on a radio with a screen。
The new technology is produced by NPR、Harris corp. and towson university jointly developed the development,But no manufacturer has said it is willing to bring the technology to market。It is now at the 41st international consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, USA,R & D personnel exhibited this modelradioThe model。
National public radio technology director Mike Starling said,Their team hopes the technology will be applied to commercial broadcasting in the future、Radio manufacturing and other industrial fields,It is also hoped that the radio with a text display screen will become a new standard in broadcasting。
This kind ofradioThe text transmission will be built on the digital broadcast technology platform。The rolling subtitle technology service does not transmit music, but the transmission can be converted to a data stream that displays scrolling subtitles by a radio screen。
At present,Although digital broadcasting is still in its infancy,But many radio stations have this technology。According to statistics,There are about 1,500 radio stations in the United States with digital broadcast technology。The cost of the technology has been greatly reduced,Now some numbersradioIt costs less than $100.
In addition,The researchers also hope to develop a translation software, can automatically translate voice to text in real time,Reduce costs at the same time,To enable it to promote the technology on more radio stations.