Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hearingimpaired, aggregated by home.social.
AI and video interpreters providing on-demand Auslan services in regional areas
For Australia’s deaf and hearing-impaired community, finding and booking an in-person Auslan …
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #AUSLAN #Australia #BallaratCityCouncil #CindyMurray #Convo #deaf #DeafConnect #DeafVictoria #Deafness #hearingimpaired #hearingimpairment #interpreters #Livecaptioning #ndis #regional #Technology #visualinterpreters
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/883098/
AI and virtual interpreters providing on-demand Auslan services in regional areas
For Australia’s deaf and hearing-impaired community, finding and booking an in-person Ausla…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #AUSLAN #Australia #BallaratCityCouncil #CindyMurray #Convo #deaf #DeafConnect #DeafVictoria #Deafness #hearingimpaired #hearingimpairment #interpreters #Livecaptioning #ndis #regional #Technology #visualinterpreters
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/882590/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/586750/ Chinese researchers develop device for hearing-impaired people to ‘understand’ sound #BionicNerve #China #Éire #Health #HearingImpaired #IE #Ireland #Science #sound
#AimeeWalker as Lili Seger
Season 2 Episode 14 "Big Monday"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Beach #HearingImpaired #Baywatch #deaf #disabled #BigMonday
Trump makes it perfectly clear that he places his self mage above providing a way for people who are hard of hearing to understand what he's saying . . .
OK, not really "understand," but still . . .
#signlanguage #deaf #hearingimpaired
https://apnews.com/article/american-sign-language-trump-white-house-7ac33c635cdefd22154d6eb7e47d3d55
So Trump's imagine is more important than communicating his messages to hearing impaired and deaf Americans.
#Trump #Disabled #HearingImpaired #Deaf
https://apnews.com/article/american-sign-language-trump-white-house-7ac33c635cdefd22154d6eb7e47d3d55
School for the deaf
Season 2 Episode 14 "Big Monday"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #BigMonday #HearingImpaired #deaf
⚠️ Heads Up for Hearing Aid🦻 Users:
2 people
+ two sets Hearing Aids with BT
+2 cell phone apps (unsynced)
+2 laptops (unsynced) with BT capability
+one wifi
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100% Hearing Mayham
Do not buy the same brand (Signa) and model hearing aids
Our hearing aids were connecting to each others computers and the company cell phone app and interfering, cross connecting and adjusting our devices!
Apparently the company is unaware and "helpless" !!
The $8,000.00 tech failure
At first glance it seems obscure, even esoteric, but given some thought it becomes obvious that an easy accessibility win is routinely being ignored.
Hey, @videolan I love you, but you rate 'Could Do Better' in this class. Maybe have a look pls?
Fury as Labour MP forced to leave assisted dying committee because her hearing aids needed recharging | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/assisted-dying-bill-hearing-aid-naz-shah-b2717728.html
#DisabilityAccessibility #BigTech
https://mastodon.accessinformationnews.com/@news/114035868587422278
In looking through this I see 2 huge flaws -
1. (beyond mastodon)These are big tech extensions/parts & thusly they're privacy disrespecting pieces of trash.
2. On the accessibility group/features - they're really only meant for #VisuallyImpaired & #HearingImpaired folks, beyond one that's for temperature regulation issues
*I'm not saying the groups these are meant for don't matter but the one I'm in & need help with is #spinal.
100%. The "modern" way Hollywood does audio in its films, with dialogue mixed low, actors not speaking clearly in the first place, music or sound effects obliterating dialogue - is particularly galling to me because I have (significant) partial hearing loss. Older films I have no trouble picking up every word of the dialogue, but current films? It doesn't matter how far I crank the volume or otherwise manipulate audio settings, I'm still missing 20% or more of the dialogue entirely unless I turn on captions (which are a poor substitute as Lauren says).
I don't know who in the chain of filmmaking - sound mixer, director, producer, studio head? - encourages the current way of doing things, but I wish a few more of them would develop hearing impairments so they understood what they're imposing on us a little better.
Agile’s insistence on co-location is disabling | Thudfactor
https://www.thudfactor.com/posts/2024/10/colocation/
#deaf
#HOH
#HardOfHearing
#HearingImpaired
#HybridWorking
#CoLocation
#HearingAids
#Offices
#ConferenceRooms
#OpenPlan
#StateOfTheNation
#PrivateEquity Is #Profiteering From The #HearingImpaired Thru #Duopoly Mandated By #FCC
a #critical #socialservice "tt shldn't even be a #privatemarket at all. Video Relay Service is a niche area of #telecoms connecting #deaf people to #signlanguage interpreters at #callcenters around #USA, so tt they can #communicate, conduct #work, or call in #medical #emergencies.. is entirely paid for by the #federal #government.." to a #Carlyle et al-owned duopoly🤔
https://prospect.org/power/2024-09-30-private-equity-is-taking-your-calls/
#HearingImpaired #CochlearImplant #joy
Fourteen year old hearing for the first time
People love to hate on #GenAI, but it really is a godsend for #VisuallyImpaired people, especially around image descriptions. But it's also massive for #HearingImpaired people too, in terms of auto-captioning. And probably a bunch of other disabilities too. Even if you hate #AI, think of all those applications.
https://gadget.co.za/awsunsighted245t/?utm_source=MastodonAfrica
@aaron.rupar
Does anyone have captions for this? #hearingimpaired
Roundabout Exceptional Puppeteers on stage Friday and Saturday
#Dance #TheatreArts #CommunityTheatreGroup #NorthernOntario #Ontario #ElliotLake #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Autistic #Art #CommunityTheatre #MastoTheatre #FediTheatre #SpecialNeedsActors. #Autism #Theatre #MastoArt
Du bist unter 35 Jahre jung, hörgeschädigt und möchtest mit anderen ins #phantasialand ? 🦻
Dann hier anmelden —>
https://www.bundesjugend.de/anmeldung-erlebniswochenende-phantasialand/
I've been messing about with computers for over 50 years but I still find it amazing that I can cycle along with a disembodied American voice in my ears (thanks to #Bluetooth #HearingAids) saying things like "in 200 meeders turn left". Still need to get used to the foibles of #OrganicMaps navigation though, such as treating a mini roundabout as a series of left turns.
#cycling #HearingImpaired
It's a midweek special on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein, as we look at "The Plant-Thing" (1925) by R. G. Macready - a story that appeared alongside the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and others - and meditate on disabled authors at WEIRD TALES.
https://deepcuts.blog/2024/05/15/the-plant-thing-1925-by-r-g-macready/
#weirdtales #weirdfiction #disability #deaf #hearingimpaired #weird #review
Deaf Awareness Week There is not only one type of deafness, one diagnosis, one cause and only one method that deaf people use to communicate. Deaf and hard of hearing people are very much all individuals with unique circumstances and a mixed bag of life experiences. #Britain #deaf #hearingimpaired https://limpingchicken.com/2024/05/03/rebecca-a-withey-what-i-wish-everyone-would-learn-from-deaf-awareness-week/
#AimeeWalker as Lili Seger
Season 2 Episode 14 "Big Monday"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Beach #HearingImpaired #Baywatch #deaf #disabled #BigMonday
Speech-to-text smartphone apps for deaf people and those with hearing loss and tinnitus - RNID
https://rnid.org.uk/information-and-support/technology-and-products/speech-to-text-smartphone-apps/
#RNID
#SpeechToTextSmartphoneApps
#SpeechToText
#Deaf
#HardOfHearing
#HearingImpaired
Wow. I just found out how to boost the treble on the IC7300 audio output via headphones. Excellent. I'm #hearingimpaired at the higher frequencies so this is great. https://youtu.be/Uv5AMTI40GI?si=1xS375oYDGQRxhNT
@plaugg @paninid Of course, when they stop working we do care. #hearingimpaired
This is a fantastic article on the Escape Collective on cycling with hearing loss:
"For people with severe hearing loss, listening is not automatic or passive; it is hard, multi-sensory work, an all-encompassing cognitive load. Solo rides, as ever, were an escape, a solace of simple pedal strokes" https://escapecollective.com/ride-sounds/?mc_cid=b390fc5caa&mc_eid=fc31b4c0ad
Thanks for your excellent article "The #UX design case of closed captions for everyone" @sebastiangreger!
https://sebastiangreger.net/2019/02/ux-closed-captions-for-everybody
Nicely summarizes the many unexpected use cases for #closedcaptions beyond just #hearingimpaired people.
I know your exploration was more qualitative than quantitative, but based on this, would you advocate for captions ON or OFF *by default* for a heterogeneous audience?
Better to have to turn them off each time, or on?
Open Source Ear Monitoring Platform Listens To Your Ears
#medicalhacks #audio #hearingaid #hearingimpaired #hackaday
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Open Source Ear Monitoring Platform Listens To Your Ears - All sorts of exciting things happen in your ears, and now there is a good open sou... - https://hackaday.com/2023/10/17/open-source-ear-monitoring-platform-listens-to-your-ears/ #hearingimpaired #medicalhacks #hearingaid #audio
American Sign Language (ASL) support over videophone is now available to deaf and hard-of-hearing people on the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/09/22/988-suicide-and-crisis-lifeline-made-more-accessible-to-deaf-hard-of-hearing-people-with-newly-added-asl-support/ #Accessibility #Deaf #HearingImpaired #ASL
We need more innovations like this. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/9/19/23881025/lyric-opera-soundshirt-new-technology-for-deaf-and-hearing-impaired #Accessibility #Deaf #HearingImpaired #Music #Opera
Lyric Opera’s SoundShirt — a new way deaf, hearing-impaired patrons can experience music
#arts #hearingimpaired #accessibility
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/9/19/23881025/lyric-opera-soundshirt-new-technology-for-deaf-and-hearing-impaired
@techsinger It's not weird at all. Unfortunately, my technology skills are lacking in that area, but I'm sure someone here will be able to help you. #Accessibility #visuallyImpaired #hearingimpaired
Neil Gaiman wrote on Facebook,
"If you are hearing impaired, or just like closed captions, and were frustrated by the closed captions of Good Omens Season 2 not bearing much relationship to what the characters were actually saying, I am delighted to tell you that new, corrected, accurate closed captions have just been uploaded and are there waiting for you."