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Skype Interviews With Captions Are A Lifeline

In today’s remote-working world, Skype calls for job interviews have skyrocketed in number, with the video-calling service used by up to 70 per cent of candidates seeking work outside their own national territory, according to recruiters in the UK. For applicants with hearing issues, Skype with realtime speech-to-text captions is a lifeline: Interviewees can see

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Multi-Device Challenges For Speech To Text Tools

Captioning services providers work to output transcripts in different formats on today’s devices, namely smartphones, tablets, laptops and now, virtual reality (VR) goggles. Captions On Multiple Devices Realtime captions for students or for TV accordingly need to be readable on multiple devices, as do captions recorded for video use, court sessions or for annual reports.

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Live Captions: Defining ‘Reasonable’ Facilitation

Anyone who requests live captions or CART (communication access in realtime) for an educational or training context, knows the pain points of (1) defining your hearing issues (2) explaining what CART is, and its benefits (3) arranging its provision and (4) establishing who actually pays for it. One blogger, Chelle George, describes in detail the

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Lip-Reading Challenges In The Hearing World

Having to verbally “translate” for signing deaf friends who do not lip-read, confirmed this skill to Rachel Kolb, a masters student at Stanford University in California. She writes eloquently here, about the challenges of lip-reading. Read: Seeing At The Speed Of Sound In a TEDxStanford talk (June 2013), Rachel Kolb talked of being deaf in a hearing world,

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Deaf Student Uses Captions In Operating Theatre

Teaching supports like captioning on a tablet PC, can allow deaf students to learn in operating theatre practicals where everyone is masked and gowned. The University of California solved the issue of a deaf student lip-reading masked colleagues in theatre, by using a tablet PC to provide live-captioning (CART). The PC device was wrapped in clear plastic

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Digital Photos For New Words And Concepts

This article continues the “Digital Photos Help Special-Needs Children Learn” piece, which is one of the most-read on IDK. Home-made picture books are a brilliant way to teach children with special needs about their home life and the world around them. It doesn’t matter how these books are used, how they’re made, or how many

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