DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, November 24, 2016
-- many deaf monks
Monks follow a way of life, much different from
everyone else. Many monks take a vow of silence,
never using their voice at all for the rest of
their lives. It is interesting to see a big
story in today's media that many monks were
deaf - from way back to Year 700! A group
of archaeologists dug up buried skulls,
and learned that many of these monks
were deaf! Years ago deaf people were not
taught how to talk - any connection
with deaf monks never using their voice?
A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/ancient-monks/
-- interpreter license, important or not important
There was a hot discussion among interpreters, both
deaf and hearing, in a midwestern state, that
interpreting certification is not important,
and that it should not be part of state licensing
laws! What does DeafDigest editor feel about it?
Yes, interpreters must get certificates, but
is concerned that fees needed to get such
certificates are too expensive.
-- lipreading war: professional lipreader vs computer
Who will win the lipreading war? The professional
lipreader or the computer? Google owns a company
named DeepMind. This company worked with
engineers from University of Oxford to develop
a lipreading computer. Who won? It was said
that the computer was successful 47 percent of
the time whereas a professional lipreader
was successful 13 percent of the time. Are
we going to always carry our computer everytime
we meet a hearing person who wants to talk to us?
Latest deaf jobs:
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- tale of two Booths
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
11/20/16 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
