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Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Technology and Research Group, says the excitement at last year’s Hackathon inspired him to do his own hack this year.
“I thought about what I want to hack on,” he says. “Very often, great products come from the things that people really care about.”
For the 2015 Hackathon, he was inspired by his father, who is hard of hearing. Shum assembled a team to develop an app called TalkEasy, which transcribes speech into real-time text to help people with hearing loss communicate.
Vanessa Ho
Microsoft News Center Staff