Voice-to-text cane system

A voice-to-text cane system for helping a walking-impaired person to walk and for converting spoken word into written words to assist a hearing-impaired person comprising, in combination:

• a cane having an upper extent and a lower extent and a central extent there between, the upper extent being in a J-shaped configuration with a first vertical leg of a first length and a second vertical leg of a second length and a semi-circular extent there between, the first length being longer than the second length, the upper extent being hollow with an exterior surface and an interior surface, the upper extent having a circular cross sectional configuration, the upper extent being in a first plane;
• the lower extent having a cylindrical configuration, the lower extent including a threaded coupling to the central extent to lengthen and shorten the system for accommodating a user;
• the central extent having a rectilinear configuration with oppositely facing parallel faces, each of the parallel faces constituting an LCD screen for displaying text messages, each of the parallel faces being in a plane parallel with the first plane;
• a speaker within the upper extent, the speaker being audibly accessible to a user;
• a processor within the upper extent, the processor being operatively coupled to the speaker and the LCD screens, the processor adapted to convert voice-to-text by translating between the language received by the microphone and the language displayed by the LCD screens;
• a source of electrical power within the second leg, a removable end cap adapted to be removed from the upper extent for supplying a new source of electrical power;
• a switch (52) coupled to the upper extent to activate and inactivate the system;
• a source of illumination (54) located in the upper extent;
• and
• a data port (58) in the upper extent to provide access to the processor to change the operating characteristics of the system.