DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 9, 2016
-- hearing device or deaf device
This device was common everywhere many years ago
but no more. What was that device? Look at:
http://deafdigest.com/hearing-device-or-deaf-device/
-- Monkey Kings fighting in a Chinese city
In Chengdu, a big Chinese city of nearly 10,500,000
people, a main street attraction is Monkey Kings,
these characters that perform on the streets for
money. All of these Monkey Kings are deaf and
they were fighting each other. The crowd looked
at them and thought it was fake fighting. But
when police arrived they knew it was real fighting.
Police broke it up and arrested all of them.
The interpreter told the police it was a turf
war that they were fighting for. They had to pay
a fine, and had to promise they cannot fight
again!
-- lipreading with nearly 94 percent accuracy
Could words be lipread with an accuracy rate of
nearly 94 percent? A team of researchers at
University of Oxford Computer Science Department
(Great Britain) said they worked on a computerized
lipreading machine that catches words with that
high rate of accuracy! Does DeafDigest believe it?
No - because there are accents, accents and
accents that can mess up the machine reading.
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- Laura Bridgman, deaf-blind woman
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
11/06/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
