dmimi@uncecs.edu (Mimi Clifford) (10/26/90)
Index Number: 11271 Gosh, let me remind some of those who mentioned replacing the still quite inadequate real time captioning with an ASL interpreter, that a LOT of us, who can't hear well, also don't know ASL. That means roughly 80% of the hearing impaired, who, in turn, are about 2+% of the population. Do I have the figures right? In any event, there are a devil of a lot of hearing impaired people who do not sign, but who find even the crazy captions a big help. In addition, there are many illiterates or poor readers, immigrants, and just plain kids who find captioning a way to deal with reading and/or English. The bottom line is, let's improve the technology of real time captioning so it can deal with real time language better!
Kevin.Mcdonough@f38.n17.z1.fidonet.org (Kevin Mcdonough) (12/21/90)
Index Number: 12539
[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
Hi Roy, this is the guy from Alaska you met at ALDACO II in Oct. I don't
know why I was surprised to see your name pop up on the E-mail net since
I know your are rreally into computer things> I started using the
fidonet up here recently and saw ur name this week> thought u could
maybe help with a Q. I have a Commadore 64 k that we want to use for
real time captioning> We use a basic word processor disk but wanted to
know if there is any software avail. to help sopeed up the process of
typing or will the tyopist just have to remind the speakers to speak at
a slow-normal rate? I'd appreciate any input u could offer. Also, I hope
all is going well for u and yours and hope you have a great Christmas
and all the best in 91> I will wait for a response from u re, the
captioning question. Bye for now from the Great White North!
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