[IAEP] Fwd: Gallaudet participates in Google program to caption YouTube videos

[Kevin Cole]

I've mentioned previously about the need for captioning in web
video...  This just in:

News from today's Daily Digest (an internal Gallaudet PR web rag)
http://news.gallaudet.edu/Daily_Digest/EventXite_-_Announcements/Gallaudet_participates_in_Google_program_to_caption_YouTube_videos.html

Gallaudet is one of 14 universities and other organizations partnering
with Google to test its new speech recognition software that is able
to automatically create captions for YouTube videos. WAMU radio
recently interviewed President Davila, Dr. Cindy King, dean of ATLAS,
and Cheryl Heppner, a member of Gallaudet's Board of Trustees and the
executive director of the Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf
and Hard of Hearing Persons, about this new program.

President Davila said in the interview: "It was really amazing,
another indication for what technology can do to improve quality of
life for people who are deaf and hard of hearing,"

Online news article featuring President Davila and Dr. King:
Gallaudet Uses New Technology, Opening Youtube To Deaf And Hard Of Hearing
http://wwww.wamu.org/news/09/11/19.php

Online news article featuring Ms. Heppner:
Despite New Technology, Internet Accessibility Lags for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
http://wamu.org/news/09/11/20.php

Both news articles link to Real Audio and Windows Media versions.
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