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Skype Speech-To-Text Option Delivers Captions

Educators, speech therapists and healthcare workers who use Skype, will like this news. Skype has developed its Translator beta tool to remove spoken-language barriers between different nationalities (and shared-nationalities, in the case of people with hearing issues). English and Spanish are the first two languages supported by Skype Translator, which uses machine-learning to achieve smarter outcomes

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‘Sound Effects’ Presentation At CESI 2014

IDK presented on ‘Sound Effects’ at CESI‘s 2014 conference on Galway’s GMIT campus, with this year’s theme of ‘Spark The Imagination‘. This presentation explored how certain aspects of sound are experienced similarly, regardless of a person’s hearing level, and particularly now that digital hearing-devices can be mapped to a wearer’s specific hearing-levels. Sound fields were also discussed

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Survival Insights For Students, Educators And Staff

Psychology student Rachel Wayne shares her insights as a young person with hearing issues in three posts for the Sci-Ed blog. Rachel wears hearing-aids, speaks, lip-reads and accesses digital content via captioned media and transcripts (using text to read). Read Rachel’s guest posts: Pardon Me? How To Talk With A Hearing-Aid Wearer Hearing Issues In Post-Secondary

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Classroom Captions Entrenching In The UK And US

In 2011, Australia’s government approved funding to deliver classroom captions to all severely to profoundly deaf pupils who need facilitation. This move was significant as deaf pupils typically must give 100% of attention to an educator, which makes personal note-taking a challenge during class. Captions To Benefit The UK’s Educators, Too Ai-Media, the captions provider,

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Webinar: “The Why And How Of Online Captions”

Frameweld, the New York-based digital media firm, hosted an excellent webinar, “The Why and How of Online Captioning” on June 26th, 2013. All videos, slides and Q&A topics from the webinar are in this blog post: Review: The Why And How Of Online Captioning This topic is pertinent, with leading educational institutions tasked to find affordable

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Touchscreen Tech Boosts Literacy In Deaf Children

Technology tools can be instrumental in teaching literacy skills to children with hearing issues and/or other learning needs, as this article shows. Touchscreen tech helps people with disabilities Some parents and educators are reserved about using iPads in early-years education. Moderation and context are advised in such settings but if an iPad device helps develop a

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