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Live Sports Events Captioned By Loyola University Students

Students at Loyola University, Maryland are captioning live sports events to gain critical work experience and enable the university to deliver on its campus-wide accessibility goals. Read: Loyola students to provide live captioning for athletics events Ironically, the routine glitches in YouTube’s auto-captions service led the university to hire a student volunteer team to caption its official videos. From there, the

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6 years ago 1 Comment Captions, Education, Hearingaccess, accessibility, athletics, auto-captions, captions, deaf, equipment, events, experience, games, generations, hearing, live, manual, real, realtime, skills, sports, stenography, student, students, technology, time, work, YouTube

Sound Advice At Web Summit 2014

Being a girl can help, at times. Especially when pitches to win tickets to [inter]national events are offered in an attempt to redress the gender imbalance in the IT industry. This specific event was Web Summit 2014 in Dublin, one capital in the internet of things (IoT) with Santander (Spain), Chicago (US) and Christchurch (New Zealand). A double of sorts resulted

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6 years ago 1 Comment Captions, Education, Hearing, Telehealth#nightsummit, #websummit, city, digital, diversity, dublin, equality, gender, hearing, Internet of Things, IoT, Ireland, IT industry, learn, pitch, skills, tech, technology, Web Summit

App For Conversing In Meetings Or Groups

A new app, Transcence, is intended to give deaf people access to spoken dialogue among friends or colleagues who don’t know sign language, without using an interpreter. Read: A Smartphone-Based App That Lets You Converse With Deaf People Potential users wanting to test the app can register their interest at the Transcence website for when it exits private beta

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6 years ago 6 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Smartphonesaccess, accessibility, app, caption, captions, communication, deaf, dialogue, education, group, groups, hearing, language, learn, literacy, mainstream, meeting, meetings, read, smartphone, social, speech, spoken, technology

Review: Dance Central With Kinect (Xbox)

A young dancer who’s deaf, wrote a review of the game, “Dance Central Spotlight” with Kinect, with several accessibility tips for developers of gaming interfaces. Specifically, Video games are not excluding [people who have hearing issues] with music-based games, but are… providing a visualization of music that can bring music to deaf and hard of hearing gamers in

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6 years ago 2 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccessibility, accessible, audio, balance, bass, beat, bluetooth, camaraderie, captions, console, dance, designer, developer, device, devices, FM, full, games, gaming, input, interface, lyrics, music, notes, rhythm, routine, routines, self-expression, skills, social, sound, subtitles, teamwork, teen, text, user, video, visual

Ai-Media, RogerVoice and Captions Progress Subtitles

Fans of real-time captions weren’t short of news recently, with three developments from real-time classroom captions, to life-with-subtitles apps on smartphones and on Google Glass: Ai-Media Firstly, UK-based captioning firm Ai-Media announced backing from Nesta Impact Investments to develop its high-quality live captioning service for students with different learning challenges, while giving teachers real-time feedback

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6 years ago 3 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Smartphonesaccess, accessibility, accessible, Ai-Media, app, captions, cochlear, communication, concept, deaf, deafness, education, glass, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, language, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, noise, read, reading, real-time, school, schools, smartphone, social, speech, student, students, subtitles, teacher, teachers, training, transcribe, transcription, visual, words

Diversity Among Deaf People Must Be Seen

Verbal wearers of cochlear implants and digital hearing devices are largely invisible in mainstream media, with a real lack of role models for young people who identify as such. Young people need to be seen on TV, enjoying mainstream life and talking with their families and friends, thanks to digital hearing devices and infant education strategies. Outdated Stereotypes On TV When

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6 years ago 4 Comments Captions, Education, Hearingaccess, child, children, cochlear, college, communication, concept, deaf, deafness, diversity, education, employer, employers, employment, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, language, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, preschool, read, reading, school, schools, social, speech, student, students, teach, teacher, teachers, technology, training, visual, words, workplace

Medical Student At PNWU Sues To Retain His Place

Earlier this year, postgraduate student Zachary Featherstone took a lawsuit against Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU) on the basis of unfair discrimination. Featherstone interviewed with PNWU in 2013, and deferred his place for a year to secure state funding for his study supports. Importantly, the State of Washington Division of Vocational Rehabilitation offered to cover

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A New Domain – And A New Name

Welcome to Sound Advice, the new name for the Irish Deaf Kids (IDK) venture since 2014! Why This Rebrand? Seven years is a milestone for a startup which coincided with the global financial crisis of 2007-08. In this time, the meaning of ‘deafness’ in Ireland was redefined, thanks to newborn hearing tests, digital hearing devices and

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Image6 years ago Captions, Education, Hearing, Language Development, Telehealth#edchatie, access, accessibility, accessible, book, books, child, children, cochlear, communication, concept, deaf, deafness, education, family, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, Ireland, language, learn, learning, literacy, mainstream, parent, parents, pivot, preschool, read, reading, rebrand, redirect, reposition, school, schools, social, speech, student, students, support, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching, technology, training, visual, words

Technology For Entrepreneurs With Hearing Issues

Today’s smartphones and tablet PCs make self-employment a reality for people like Janice Fucci, who hears and lip-reads with a cochlear implant. Now aged 60, Fucci runs a small business using text messages, calendar apps and Facebook to reach her clients, some sourced from past salon jobs. Read: Technology opens entrepreneurship to deaf people Roadmaps And

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6 years ago 4 Comments Captions, Education, Hearing, Smartphonesaccess, accessible, app, calendar, deaf, device, devices, digital, disability, education, employer, employment, empower, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, equaliser, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, leveler, leveller, messaging, mobile, reform, smartphone, sms, social, technology, text, training, work

Remote Tuning For Implants Saves Families Time

Using telepractice systems to remotely manage and tune cochlear implants saves vital time for child and adult wearers in terms of travel, hours missed at school or work and quality time spent with friends and family members. One family with a six-year-old wearer of a cochlear implant, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer how teletherapy saves travel

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