His device attached to different parts of the body, translating sound into tactile stimulation.

Offering observations culled from his own experience, Mr. Manning said, he has helped the writers understand how, exactly, a blind man uses a restroom and what it's like to translate sound into mental images.

She smiled and nodded me on back, not missing a word, gaze turned inward as she translated sound to paper with no lag time in between.

In the first year after my injury I couldn't understand what was said to me (it took too long to translate sound into word), and I was unable to boil water.

Mr. Goeken's new phones will be the first in airplanes to employ digital transmission technology, which translates sound into the ones and zeroes of computer code.

While literacy extends human possibilities in both thought and action, all literate technologies ultimately depend on the ability of humans to learn oral languages and then translate sound into symbolic imagery.

This was the first attempt at quadraphonic sound in Australia, and also the first demonstration of "Chromasonics" - the science of translating sound into visual images.

Digital audio, by contrast, translates sound to electric impulses that can be captured in precise computer code and manipulated just like any other software.

Mirrors don't translate sound.

I saw patterns like that long before modern computers started translating sound to movement/color.