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From: dmimi@uncecs.edu (Mimi Clifford)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Real time captioning
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Date: 26 Oct 90 03:12:45 GMT
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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!