Selfies have become the modern day equivalent of postcards, a way to share our travel experiences with family and friends on social media. It's one thing to strike a goofy pose and snap a photo for Instagram on a beach or ...
Social Sciences
Mar 20, 2024
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Want to learn a new language? Try watching videos in that language with the captions turned on—and slow down the speed.
Social Sciences
Mar 14, 2024
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When Troy Kotsur was awarded Best Supporting Actor at the recent Academy Awards, he dedicated his win to the Deaf community. CODA went on to win Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, making it a major step forward for ...
Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2022
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Facebook says it's bringing closed captioning to Facebook Live to make at least some of the videos streamed live on the social network accessible to people who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Internet
Jun 8, 2017
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Most college and university students who use closed captions and transcripts on video and multimedia find them helpful as a learning tool, despite them not regularly being made available, according to new research from Oregon ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2016
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Two people in a recording booth deep inside a Connecticut office park are helping millions of blind Americans feel part of the Olympics like never before.
Telecom
Aug 17, 2016
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Two researchers at Idiap, a research institute in Martigny that is affiliated with EPFL, developed an algorithm that – unlike systems recently unveiled by Google and Microsoft – can describe an image without having to ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 16, 2015
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In 2008, four students at the MIT Sloan School of Management developed a system for captioning online video that was far more efficient than traditional methods, which involve pausing a video frequently to write text and ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 9, 2015
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Advocates for the deaf sued Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday, saying the universities failed to provide closed captioning for online courses, podcasts and other educational programs.
Other
Feb 12, 2015
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A simple change—switching on captions—can make a big difference when students watch educational videos, an SF State professor has discovered.
Social Sciences
Oct 11, 2013
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