Intelligent 5

IBM Employee Requests Captions On Intranet Videos

Dialogue on audio and video files needs to be accurately machine-translated into captions, with the legal case, Noll versus IBM, recently reported in The New York Law Journal. Software engineer, Alfred Noll, employed at IBM since 1984, had used a mix of real time captioning and transcribing, plus interpreters as accommodations – but reported difficulty in accessing the corporate

9 years ago Captions, Education, Hearingaccess, accessibility, accessible, accommodation, audio, captions, cochlear, dialog, dialogue, digital, employee, facilitation, inclusion, inclusive, intelligent, internet, intranet, learn, literacy, machine, mentor, MOOC, MOOCs, online, realtime, reasonable, remote, software, speech to text, spoken, subtitles, support, technology, training, transcribe, transcript, translation, video, visual, words, workplace

Connected Alarm Clock And Alerter From Cenify

Two students at Rochester Institute of Technology, Patrick Seypura and Alec Satterly, who have hearing issues, are gearing for connected homes with a smartphone-based alarm clock app, to distribute via Cenify, their company. This video shows how the app and phone might work in the home context: A wireless version of the app-managed clock is

10 years ago 2 Comments Hearing, Smartphones#hearable, #wearables, access, accessibility, accessible, app, cochlear, coffee, college, connect, connected, deaf, deafness, degree, education, family, hearing, home, homes, inclusion, inclusive, intelligent, late, machine, mainstream, RIT, school, sensor, smart, smartphone, social, speech, student, students, studies, study, support, technology, time, up, wake, wearable, work, workplace

Smartphones May Power Wireless Hearing Devices

Several times recently, Sound Advice was asked what future hearing systems for today’s children and young adults, might look like. Remember, before 2007 iPhones and mobile, touchscreen devices were unknown – while developers are now addressing wireless, inter-device connectivity and miniaturisation. Connected Hearing There’s good news for child and adult wearers of future hearing-devices, who will

10 years ago Hearing, Smartphones802, app, assistant, bluetooth, charge, charging, cochlear, connected, connectivity, control, device, devices, education, find, fully, implant, implants, intelligent, iPod, ishuffle, kinetic, lost, manage, management, rechargeable, remote, RFID, smartphones, standard, technologies, technology, wearable, wifi, wireless

Long-Term Benefits Of Smarter Cochlear Implants

Children who receive cochlear implants can progress for several years afterward, a longitudinal research project by Penn State University shows. In a milestone multi-year study, the researchers found students’ peer relationships were impacted by teacher and peer acceptance within a school. Positive Long-Term Outcomes of Cochlear Implantation “We didn’t actually know how implanted children would do

11 years ago 2 Comments Education, Hearing, Language Developmentacoustic, acoustics, app, assistant, child, children, cochlear, device, ear, environment, families, family, hear, hearing, implant, intelligent, interface, long-term, longitudinal, longterm, model, outcome, outcomes, parent, parents, remote, research, smart, smarter, speech, study, talk, talking, technology

‘Children Are Made Smart From Conversations’

Earlier this year, Chicago-based ENT surgeon Dana Suskind, was mentioned on this site for her Thirty Million Words project. Working with children who have cochlear implants raised her interest into how spoken language builds when family conversations are facilitated – in babies and children with/out hearing issues. Read: Want Smart Kids? Talk – And Listen – To

11 years ago 2 Comments Education, Hearing, Language Developmentaccess, auditory, background, bank, book, books, brain, build, chat, chatterbox, chatty, child, children, cochlear, communication, converse, creche, deaf, deafness, develop, development, ece, economic, education, family, grow, hear, hearing, inclusion, inclusive, infant, intelligence, intelligent, interact, interaction, interactions, kindergarten, language, listen, literacy, mainstream, million, parent, parents, pathways, preschool, read, reading, respond, smart, socio, speak, talk, talking, technology, thirty, thirty million words, verbal, vocabulary, word, words

Archives