Video Interpreting, communication bridge to the Deaf

As Technology morphs and the quality and techno curve rises the prices for things below that drop. An Ojo Shadow Personal Video Phone was recently offered at buy.com for $99.99		Program opens high-tech world to deaf students Unique summer academy seeks to diversify the computer-science work force ...This is a GREAT move...educating deaf youth in computer science. The whiz kids of tomorrow! READ MORE

Although this technology has been out there awhile I thought I would still include it in this section for those who were not aware of it....
The iCommunicator promotes independent communication for persons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing or experience unique communication challenges by allowing effective two-way communication to occur in most natural environments.

The iCommunicator translates in real-time:
-Speech to Text
-Speech/Text to Video Sign-Language
-Speech/Text to Computer Generated Voice

This video demonstrates the features and benefits of iCommunicator.

Ray Smets, Cisco's vice president and general manager, Wireless Networking Business Unit, talks about trends and demands around video over enterprise wireless network

Rochester Institute of Technology to Enhance Learning Capabilities With Innovative Video Applications and Cisco Media-Ready Wireless LAN
Ray Smets, vice president and general manager for the Cisco Wireless Networking Business Unit
"The ability to deliver video and multimedia applications over the wireless network -- with the same quality and performance that users are accustomed to receiving via a wired network -- has inherent challenges. The new Cisco VideoStream technology addresses those challenges for the growing demands around delivering real-time visual collaboration and a need for new sustainable business practices, especially to support a distributed workforce. RIT is a perfect example of how the right wireless infrastructure not only delivers key applications for the broader population of students, faculty and IT staff, but can also be the launching pad for the innovation of new applications like the video lectures that RIT is offering to its deaf and hard-of-hearing students." MORE INFO

Google to Add Captions, Improving YouTube Videos
NY Times November 19
In the first major step toward making millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people, Google unveiled new technologies that will automatically bring text captions to many videos on the site.The speech recognition technology that Google uses to turn speech into text is not new; Google currently uses it to transcribe voice mail messages for users of its Google Voice service.READ MORE

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