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Google voice transcript versus email
I like that the NY Times wrote about closed captioning on the web earlier this week. But I had to laugh at their quote that YouTube “supplies mostly accurate captions using voice-recognition software.” MOSTLY accurate? Right. Far from it. I assume the Google Voice transcripts use similar technology, and usually I would say, they ARE [...]
Norwegian Sign Language?
This came into my email recently, pretty interesting…. If you’ve never checked out Couch Surfing before, their website is a global community of people who want to host and be house guests. We have hosted probably half a dozen times now. It’s always interesting to talk to different people and show them around town. The [...]
It’s the little things
Free Bird Originally uploaded by Southernpixel This morning I heard the beep on my car telling me I left my lights on. They were on only because it’s a bright sunny day and my commute is mostly due west and people can’t see what’s behind them (or coming towards them on a 2way road if they’re [...]
Mechanical Piano that “Speaks”
I haven’t gotten to watch this video with sound yet, but I can imagine what it sounds like. There are captions of a sort that explain what’s going on. It’s very similar to how our brain learns to hear cochlear implant stimulus as speech… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
NPR interview about CIs
Sometimes I forget that the things I post to the CI mailing lists I’m on might be good to put here too: The transcript of this NPR show looks interesting. I haven’t gotten to listen to this yet (forgot to bring headphones to work, forgot to bring spare battery for CI #1 too! 3 weeks away [...]
Dinner party
We were invited to dinner at a friend’s house last night. There were seven of us all together and I had met all but one of them at least once before. Last time we played a game called Loaded Questions. I remember having to make people repeat things again and again when it was my [...]
The phone, video phones, multi-tasking and “the future”
Ever since I started ‘chatting’ on the internet back in 1995 or 96 I’ve been a multi-tasker. My mom and I chatted, my friends at college and I chatted, I even IMed with my roommates when we were in the same room. The reason this works so well is that it allows us to have [...]
Second (lett) Activation – December 29, 2009
Last night one of the local news weather people was asking on Twitter for favorite memories of 2009. I didn’t write in, but my favorite memory of 2009 was only a few hours old. My new CI was activated yesterday afternoon and after going through and setting the comfortable volume level on 11 electrodes three or [...]
So far, so good
Had my second CI surgery today and am now bilateral. I missed my pre-op appointment due to being snowed in from the storm Friday and Saturday with no plows in sight on my street. I was pretty worried but when I called to tell them they said just come for surgery, they could do everything then [...]
Hearing a lot: videos, the phone, movies
Another short update just to say that I’m now able to hear the following things a whole lot better than I could without the implant: High-quality recorded voices. I’m not understanding movies at the theater, but I am understanding movies at ted.com (without the amazing subtitles that site has!) and many other videos that have professional, [...]
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