DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 13, 2016
-- trying to fix bad captions
Can bad captions be fixed at a very low cost?
A captioning company in Ohio thinks so. It is
working on a special two-year project to
give us accurate captions. DeafDigest is
wondering. Different accents, different
dialects, background noise, similiar
words may cause captions to go bad.
Example - last name Zimmerman and
Zimmermann cannot be perfectly
spelled out in captions. We will
wait and see if we will have perfect
captions two years from now. A
picture of a bad captioning you may
want to laugh (or to cry):
http://deafdigest.com/captions-to-laugh-or-to-cry/
-- a disappointing deaf video
A freshman girl at Folsom HS in California produced a
short video - called "Silent" and it generated many hits,
views and shares. It is about anti-bullying, and the
deaf character in the video was bullied. One TV person
watched the video and cried when the story ended. It was
very disappointing! Why? It was a 100 percent hearing.
The "deaf" girl being bullied was fake-deaf.
-- a required sign language course
For ten minutes a month, the top officials with the
Nagano Prefecture municipal government in Japan,
are required to learn simple signs - such as
hello, thank you very much, etc. This is great
- except - would these county people remember
the signs they learned last month if they do not
practice it every day with each other!
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- Fire chief, deaf
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
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