I've mentioned previously about the need for captioning in web video... This just in:
News from today's Daily Digest (an internal Gallaudet PR web rag) http://news.gallaudet.edu/Daily_Digest/EventXite_-_Announcements/Gallaudet_participates_in_Google_program_to_caption_YouTube_videos.html Gallaudet is one of 14 universities and other organizations partnering with Google to test its new speech recognition software that is able to automatically create captions for YouTube videos. WAMU radio recently interviewed President Davila, Dr. Cindy King, dean of ATLAS, and Cheryl Heppner, a member of Gallaudet's Board of Trustees and the executive director of the Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons, about this new program. President Davila said in the interview: "It was really amazing, another indication for what technology can do to improve quality of life for people who are deaf and hard of hearing," Online news article featuring President Davila and Dr. King: Gallaudet Uses New Technology, Opening Youtube To Deaf And Hard Of Hearing http://wwww.wamu.org/news/09/11/19.php Online news article featuring Ms. Heppner: Despite New Technology, Internet Accessibility Lags for Deaf and Hard of Hearing http://wamu.org/news/09/11/20.php Both news articles link to Real Audio and Windows Media versions. -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep