In a message dated 10/7/05 7:24:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Devices help the blind cross tech divide
... Business is really booming these days, Swerdlick said, as more and more manufacturers are building so-called assistive technology gadgets to address a wide range of special needs groups....That's because Swerdlick is legally blind. >> Ron Cooper of Access Sacramento here.... I am E.D of Access Sacramento community TV and radio for Sacramento County, CA. In the world of public, educational, and government (PEG) access television there is a discussion going on about how to affordably caption our PEG programming for hearing impaired audiences. Manual keyboard captioning services are cost prohibitive. We facilitate about 3,000 hours of volunteer produced programming a year and at $300 per hour, the $900,000 price tag would be twice our annual budget. However, I was wondering if anyone had created a closed or open captioning device based upon voice recognition software? The computer would "listen" to the output of the access channel and CC in the lower third of the TV screen automatically without manual keyboard entry. Does this gadget already exist? What would be the cost? If it were in the $2K-$5K range, I know many PEG stations would want to purchase such a device... any ideas?... Ron Cooper (916) 456-8600 #112 _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
