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Ava’s Live AI Captions Make Videocalls Accessible
AvaScribe, which live captions in-person conversations, is moving into the desktop and web app space with $4.5 million in funding. In the videocall space, Ava’s captions have an edge over platforms like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams with built-in accessibility. Transcripts are saved after videocalls, for review and re-use. Each speaker has a colour label,
Videoconferencing Auto-Captions
Multitudes of people have pivoted since spring 2020 pushed us all into video-calling with family, friends and colleagues, on the fly. Live Captions Keep You Connected Meryl Evans, a marketer who wears cochlear implants, wrote, “The Best Automatic Captioning Tool For Videocalls“ Literally, the tech firms are innovating videocall platforms at speed to stay relevant,
Enhancing Entrepreneurial Thinking In Social Service Settings
The What Works Ireland initiative from DCEDIY ran an Online Festival of Learning in November 2020, focusing to prevention and early intervention in government and social services. Four types of public entrepreneur were named at the outset: Efficiency Drivers. Driving workflow innovation for efficiency. Bureaucracy Hacker. Creating value with process innovation. Market Shapers. Grant making,
Innovating No Touch Cochlear Implant Pathways For Covid
The second CI Futures 2020 webinar on August 5th, explored innovations in no-touch hearing care pathways for covid 19 times. Trisha DiGiovanni, a CI user, described how remote consultations blended with in-clinic processes before her surgery. Strong broadband, multilingual manuals and flexibility with time zones mattered, with patients taking responsibility for their own care due
Reconfiguring Cochlear Implant Services For Covid Times
The CI Futures Forum summer 2020 webinars from the Global CI Collaborative, a group of global leaders in hearing and cochlear implant care, explores how covid-19 is catalysing innovation in care pathways, ENT surgical processes and telehealth channels. Reconfiguring CI Services: the new ‘normal’ was on July 22, with Katherine Bouton, a CI wearer, seeing
Classroom Captions At RIT Get AI Assistance
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) – hosting the National Technical Institute for Deaf students (NTID) – is optimising its realtime lecture captions with help from Microsoft. With deaf student demographics shifting to realtime captioning, by 2016 the number of lecture-captioning hours at RIT grew by 58% to 24,335 – up from just 15,440 hours in
What Twenty-First Century Deafness Looks Like
Deafness is different in the twenty-first century. With today’s digital hearing technology, why consign potentially talented students, teammates and/or work colleagues to lesser life-roles? Changing What ‘Deaf’ Means I never learned sign language in a family or institutional setting, so don’t act so surprised when I tell you I don’t sign. Many hearing people seem
Deaf Kids Learn Words Faster Than Hearing Kids
Young deaf children with bilateral cochlear implants can learn words faster than hearing peers at 12, 18 and 24 months after implantation, electroencephalography studies show. We observed that when deaf children get their implants, they learn words faster than those with normal hearing. Consequently, they build up certain word pools faster. ~ Niki Vavatzanidis, scientist at
Teachers May Overlook Deaf Childrens’ Support
News headlines in the UK’s print and online media, present deaf children as ‘failing to learn’ at local mainstream schools. Deaf education is multi-faceted, so let’s unpack a few points. Different Outcomes For Children Born In The UK After 2006 Detection Age Impacts Literacy Skills Recently, a survey of 129 oral and signing deaf children
Optimising Digital Sound In Hearing-Devices
Hearing-device wearers report that assistive technology to contain background noise is still a holy grail and needs industry co-operation, according to an Action on Hearing Loss survey: Ninety-six per cent of respondents said hearing in noisy settings is a major challenge. Just 12% of hearing aid users and 27% of cochlear implant wearers are satisfied now. Help From The Hearing-Device Industry
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell
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