I have a program where I ask for donated computers and, in turn, give
them to hearing impaired students, that do not have computers at home,
who are integrated into public schools at no cost to them. The idea is
to help these students become computer literate by being able to
practice, at home, the computer training they may get in the
classrooms. However, the main goal is to help out with the problem of
limited interpreters being available and qualified, to be in all the
required classroom. I foresee the day, in the not too distant future,
that we will see mics on the teachers and computers in front of the
hearing impaired where they will be able to "see" nearly 100% of what
the teacher is presenting. Additionally, it should work for interaction
of questions from other students, being "seen". These students will be
able to save the presentation on a disk for later study it at home.
Also, I am trying to find educational software that will be useable by
the hearing impaired. Presently this is very limited an expensive. As
you know, most of the educational software on the market today is proud
of it's phonics capabilities. In addition, mentors are needed for the
hearing impaired and what could be better then a web site dedicated to
interaction between mentors from all career field being able to work
with the hearing impaired without having to learn sign language. So
that is what I am trying to accomplish and I try to look everywhere for
help. Thanks for the tip on the Rochester Institute of Technology.
John
spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org wrote:
>
> hi john,
>
> sorry to disappoint you, but i DO have to say all the boring punctuation
> marks! the only person this is a problem for in the classroom is me (as i
> have to remember to include all punctuation marks while simultaneously
> interpreting - quite a brain strain!) as the students (and most teachers)
> are all deaf. obviously in a 'hearing' classroom, the teacher or lecturer
> would not be able to do this without driving themselves and their
students
> nuts.
>
> i would love to see a way to doing it without the punctuation -
apparently
> someone at rochester institute of technology is managing it, but i don't
> have enough info to explain how. what are you working on? any info would
be
> gratefully accepted! -- dani
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org [mailto:spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org]
> Sent: Friday, 21 July 2000 14:02
> Subject: Re: voice recognition and real-time captioning
>
> I am extremely interested in how you plan to do this little trick. It
> sounds like an outstanding way to improve language capabilities of the
> children. How do you use get real time captioning via VR without saying
> period, comma and all the other commands required by Via Voice and
> Dragon programs. I have been trying to find a way to do this for years
> and you are the first one that seems to have an idea on getting the job
> done.
>
> John D. Chapman
> Seehear Corporation
> Fort Walton Beach, Florida
> jchap1@home.com
>
> spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org wrote:
> >
> > i have recently written a short paper about the project i'm working on,
> > providing real-time captioning to deaf students using voice
recognition.
> i
> > work in a bilingual school - the language of instruction is auslan
> > (australian sign language). i am an auslan-english interpreter. i
> interpret
> > the teacher's auslan into spoken english, which is then converted via
VR
> > into english text, and displayed on a tv screen next to the teacher.
the
> > aim
> > is to expose the children to more english, to improve their literacy
> skills
> > and allow them to make comparisons between the two languages. if anyone
> is
> > interested in a copy of the paper, pls contact me at:
> > dani.fried@ridbc.org.au
> > thanks!
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