DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, June 16, 2016
-- afraid of new Colorado law
Colorado has a new law, requiring all police stations
to tape voice interviews between police and suspects
in certain felony cases. This is to prevent false
confessions. In the case of deaf suspects, interpreters'
voices, based on deaf responses, will also be taped.
DeafDigest is afraid that unqualified interpreters
may misinterpret what the deaf suspect said. A
picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/police-voice-interviews-of-suspects/
-- deaf arrested for dialing relay 911 in a domestic issue
Christine Stein, a deaf North Dakota woman, was arrested
after making a relay 911 call to deal with a domestic issue
involving a hearing person. Police arrived and instead
of helping with the incident, arrested her. No interpreter
was given her at any time. Eventually all charges
were dropped. She is still angry and has filed lawsuits
against several police and law agencies. She said she
wants to see that it never happens again to any
deaf person.
-- voice in silent movies
MIT researchers are working on a project - to insert voice
in silent movies (from late 19th century thru the 1920's).
They say voice quality is so "perfect" that today's viewers
would not realize these were faked voices. What about captions
based on these faked voices? If hearing people can listen to
these "faked voices" then we have the right to watch these
captions based on faked voices!
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- Interpreter not available at sales presentation
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
06/12/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
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