#hearingimpairment — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/435690/ Activists want sign language taught in all schools #Deaf #education #HanniferKawooya #HearingImpairment #SignLanguage #Uganda
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Critics claim Khan’s new disability action plan ‘lacks ambition’
Lib Dem leader at City Hall warns the mayor’s new action plan for deaf and disabled Londoners “risks…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Enfield #accessibility #CityHall #Disability #hearingimpairment #LiberalDemocrats #SadiqKhan
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Critics claim Khan’s new disability action plan ‘lacks ambition’
Lib Dem leader at City Hall warns the mayor’s new action plan for deaf and disabled Londoners “risks…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Haringey #Disability #hearingimpairment #LiberalDemocrats
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Critics claim Khan’s new disability action plan ‘lacks ambition’
Lib Dem leader at City Hall warns the mayor’s new action plan for deaf and disabled Londoners “risks…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #WalthamForest #accessibility #CityHall #Disability #hearingimpairment #SadiqKhan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Disability Scoop: Netflix Making Kids’ Shows More Accessible. “Through a new arrangement, Netflix will make hundreds of hours of programing for kids and families more accessible to those with disabilities. Starting this week, the streaming service will add overlays with Deaf performers interpreting in American Sign Language to 73 titles.”
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Disability Scoop: Netflix Making Kids’ Shows More Accessible. “Through a new arrangement, Netflix will make hundreds of hours of programing for kids and families more accessible to those with disabilities. Starting this week, the streaming service will add overlays with Deaf performers interpreting in American Sign Language to 73 titles.”
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Disability Scoop: Netflix Making Kids’ Shows More Accessible. “Through a new arrangement, Netflix will make hundreds of hours of programing for kids and families more accessible to those with disabilities. Starting this week, the streaming service will add overlays with Deaf performers interpreting in American Sign Language to 73 titles.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/07/disability-scoop-netflix-making-kids-shows-more-accessible/ -
Disability Scoop: Netflix Making Kids’ Shows More Accessible. “Through a new arrangement, Netflix will make hundreds of hours of programing for kids and families more accessible to those with disabilities. Starting this week, the streaming service will add overlays with Deaf performers interpreting in American Sign Language to 73 titles.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/07/disability-scoop-netflix-making-kids-shows-more-accessible/ -
Disability Scoop: Netflix Making Kids’ Shows More Accessible. “Through a new arrangement, Netflix will make hundreds of hours of programing for kids and families more accessible to those with disabilities. Starting this week, the streaming service will add overlays with Deaf performers interpreting in American Sign Language to 73 titles.”
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PsyPost: AI voice clones are easier to understand in noisy environments than real humans. “Artificial intelligence voice clones tend to be easier to understand in noisy environments than the actual human voices they mimic. This finding provides evidence that synthetic speech technology could significantly improve assistive communication devices for individuals with speech impairments.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/psypost-ai-voice-clones-are-easier-to-understand-in-noisy-environments-than-real-humans/ -
PsyPost: AI voice clones are easier to understand in noisy environments than real humans. “Artificial intelligence voice clones tend to be easier to understand in noisy environments than the actual human voices they mimic. This finding provides evidence that synthetic speech technology could significantly improve assistive communication devices for individuals with speech impairments.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/psypost-ai-voice-clones-are-easier-to-understand-in-noisy-environments-than-real-humans/ -
PsyPost: AI voice clones are easier to understand in noisy environments than real humans. “Artificial intelligence voice clones tend to be easier to understand in noisy environments than the actual human voices they mimic. This finding provides evidence that synthetic speech technology could significantly improve assistive communication devices for individuals with speech impairments.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/psypost-ai-voice-clones-are-easier-to-understand-in-noisy-environments-than-real-humans/ -
PsyPost: AI voice clones are easier to understand in noisy environments than real humans. “Artificial intelligence voice clones tend to be easier to understand in noisy environments than the actual human voices they mimic. This finding provides evidence that synthetic speech technology could significantly improve assistive communication devices for individuals with speech impairments.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/21/psypost-ai-voice-clones-are-easier-to-understand-in-noisy-environments-than-real-humans/ -
PsyPost: AI voice clones are easier to understand in noisy environments than real humans. “Artificial intelligence voice clones tend to be easier to understand in noisy environments than the actual human voices they mimic. This finding provides evidence that synthetic speech technology could significantly improve assistive communication devices for individuals with speech impairments.”
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Ars Technica: Google temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced captions without warning. “Google has now posted a brief statement and confirmed to Ars that it has not ended support for SRV3. However, all is not well. The company says it has temporarily limited the serving of SRV3 caption files because they may break playback for some users.”
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Ars Technica: Google temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced captions without warning. “Google has now posted a brief statement and confirmed to Ars that it has not ended support for SRV3. However, all is not well. The company says it has temporarily limited the serving of SRV3 caption files because they may break playback for some users.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/ars-technica-google-temporarily-disabled-youtubes-advanced-captions-without-warning/ -
Ars Technica: Google temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced captions without warning. “Google has now posted a brief statement and confirmed to Ars that it has not ended support for SRV3. However, all is not well. The company says it has temporarily limited the serving of SRV3 caption files because they may break playback for some users.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/ars-technica-google-temporarily-disabled-youtubes-advanced-captions-without-warning/ -
Ars Technica: Google temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced captions without warning. “Google has now posted a brief statement and confirmed to Ars that it has not ended support for SRV3. However, all is not well. The company says it has temporarily limited the serving of SRV3 caption files because they may break playback for some users.”
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1 News (New Zealand): Sign language AI avatars to include Māori concepts, signs. “A New Zealand company is breaking down barriers for the Deaf community by creating AI avatars with the ability to sign and translate to NZ Sign Language. The inclusion of Māori signs and concepts have Turi Māori, those in the Māori Deaf community, throwing their hands up in celebration.”
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1 News (New Zealand): Sign language AI avatars to include Māori concepts, signs. “A New Zealand company is breaking down barriers for the Deaf community by creating AI avatars with the ability to sign and translate to NZ Sign Language. The inclusion of Māori signs and concepts have Turi Māori, those in the Māori Deaf community, throwing their hands up in celebration.”
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1 News (New Zealand): Sign language AI avatars to include Māori concepts, signs. “A New Zealand company is breaking down barriers for the Deaf community by creating AI avatars with the ability to sign and translate to NZ Sign Language. The inclusion of Māori signs and concepts have Turi Māori, those in the Māori Deaf community, throwing their hands up in celebration.”
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1 News (New Zealand): Sign language AI avatars to include Māori concepts, signs. “A New Zealand company is breaking down barriers for the Deaf community by creating AI avatars with the ability to sign and translate to NZ Sign Language. The inclusion of Māori signs and concepts have Turi Māori, those in the Māori Deaf community, throwing their hands up in celebration.”
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The Register: Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly. “FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.”
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The Register: Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly. “FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.”
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The Register: Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly. “FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.”
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The Register: Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly. “FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.”
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The Register: Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well. “China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.”
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The Register: Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well. “China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.”
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Pete Warden: How to caption videos in Javascript. “I’m excited to announce the public launch of MoonshineJS. This is an in-browser implementation of our lightweight speech to text models, and while you can do a lot of different things with the library, one of my favorite use cases is adding captions to videos.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/pete-warden-how-to-caption-videos-in-javascript/
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Pete Warden: How to caption videos in Javascript. “I’m excited to announce the public launch of MoonshineJS. This is an in-browser implementation of our lightweight speech to text models, and while you can do a lot of different things with the library, one of my favorite use cases is adding captions to videos.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/pete-warden-how-to-caption-videos-in-javascript/
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Pete Warden: How to caption videos in Javascript. “I’m excited to announce the public launch of MoonshineJS. This is an in-browser implementation of our lightweight speech to text models, and while you can do a lot of different things with the library, one of my favorite use cases is adding captions to videos.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/pete-warden-how-to-caption-videos-in-javascript/
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Pete Warden: How to caption videos in Javascript. “I’m excited to announce the public launch of MoonshineJS. This is an in-browser implementation of our lightweight speech to text models, and while you can do a lot of different things with the library, one of my favorite use cases is adding captions to videos.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/pete-warden-how-to-caption-videos-in-javascript/
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Pete Warden: How to caption videos in Javascript. “I’m excited to announce the public launch of MoonshineJS. This is an in-browser implementation of our lightweight speech to text models, and while you can do a lot of different things with the library, one of my favorite use cases is adding captions to videos.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/pete-warden-how-to-caption-videos-in-javascript/
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Gallaudet News: Gallaudet experts drive accessibility of speech tech for deaf voices . “Some people use their voices to control tech, from cell phones and remote controls to home appliances and in transportation. Voice command capabilities are made possible through training AI and machine learning. The Speech Accessibility Project is creating datasets of more diverse speech patterns, which […]
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Gallaudet News: Gallaudet experts drive accessibility of speech tech for deaf voices . “Some people use their voices to control tech, from cell phones and remote controls to home appliances and in transportation. Voice command capabilities are made possible through training AI and machine learning. The Speech Accessibility Project is creating datasets of more diverse speech patterns, which […]
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Gallaudet News: Gallaudet experts drive accessibility of speech tech for deaf voices . “Some people use their voices to control tech, from cell phones and remote controls to home appliances and in transportation. Voice command capabilities are made possible through training AI and machine learning. The Speech Accessibility Project is creating datasets of more diverse speech patterns, which […]
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Florida Atlantic University: Engineers Bring Sign Language to ‘Life’ Using AI. “… researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University have developed an innovative real-time ASL interpretation system. Combining the object detection power of YOLOv11 with MediaPipe’s precise hand tracking, the system can accurately recognize ASL alphabet […]
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Florida Atlantic University: Engineers Bring Sign Language to ‘Life’ Using AI. “… researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University have developed an innovative real-time ASL interpretation system. Combining the object detection power of YOLOv11 with MediaPipe’s precise hand tracking, the system can accurately recognize ASL alphabet […]
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Florida Atlantic University: Engineers Bring Sign Language to ‘Life’ Using AI. “… researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University have developed an innovative real-time ASL interpretation system. Combining the object detection power of YOLOv11 with MediaPipe’s precise hand tracking, the system can accurately recognize ASL alphabet […]
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Florida Atlantic University: Engineers Bring Sign Language to ‘Life’ Using AI. “… researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University have developed an innovative real-time ASL interpretation system. Combining the object detection power of YOLOv11 with MediaPipe’s precise hand tracking, the system can accurately recognize ASL alphabet […]
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Rochester Institute of Technology: RIT/NTID announces launch of InterpNET resource database. “Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf announces the launch of InterpNET, a resource database for educators and students in interpreter education programs, deafness-related organizations, and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge. Information is […]
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Rochester Institute of Technology: RIT/NTID announces launch of InterpNET resource database. “Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf announces the launch of InterpNET, a resource database for educators and students in interpreter education programs, deafness-related organizations, and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge. Information is […]
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Rochester Institute of Technology: RIT/NTID announces launch of InterpNET resource database. “Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf announces the launch of InterpNET, a resource database for educators and students in interpreter education programs, deafness-related organizations, and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge. Information is […]
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Rochester Institute of Technology: RIT/NTID announces launch of InterpNET resource database. “Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf announces the launch of InterpNET, a resource database for educators and students in interpreter education programs, deafness-related organizations, and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge. Information is […]
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DJ Magazine: Disabled Ravers Network seeks submissions for disabled, neurodivergent and Deaf artists for new database. “Disabled Ravers Network (DRN) is seeking submissions from disabled, neurodivergent and Deaf artists for a new database. The first-of-its-kind database will shine a light on disabled talent from Manchester and the North of England in a bid to ‘make the rave accessible.'”
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DJ Magazine: Disabled Ravers Network seeks submissions for disabled, neurodivergent and Deaf artists for new database. “Disabled Ravers Network (DRN) is seeking submissions from disabled, neurodivergent and Deaf artists for a new database. The first-of-its-kind database will shine a light on disabled talent from Manchester and the North of England in a bid to ‘make the rave accessible.'”
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DJ Magazine: Disabled Ravers Network seeks submissions for disabled, neurodivergent and Deaf artists for new database. “Disabled Ravers Network (DRN) is seeking submissions from disabled, neurodivergent and Deaf artists for a new database. The first-of-its-kind database will shine a light on disabled talent from Manchester and the North of England in a bid to ‘make the rave accessible.'”
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DJ Magazine: Disabled Ravers Network seeks submissions for disabled, neurodivergent and Deaf artists for new database. “Disabled Ravers Network (DRN) is seeking submissions from disabled, neurodivergent and Deaf artists for a new database. The first-of-its-kind database will shine a light on disabled talent from Manchester and the North of England in a bid to ‘make the rave accessible.'”
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Hearing Impairment Linked to Increased Risk of Parkinson's Disease 57% higher risk for every 10-decibel increase! 📈 #Parkinsons #HearingImpairment #HealthAwareness https://curedigest.com/science-news/parkinsons/hearing-impairment-may-be-a-sign-of-increased-risk-of-parkinson-s-disease
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Florida Atlantic University: Study Uses AI to Interpret American Sign Language in Real-time. “researchers… conducted a first-of-its-kind study focused on recognizing American Sign Language alphabet gestures using computer vision. They developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of American Sign Language hand gestures. Using MediaPipe, each image was annotated with 21 key landmarks on […]
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Apple’s AirPods Pro could be getting a “hearing aid mode” later this year - Enlarge / Apple AirPods on display at the company's Fifth Avenue store ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009584 #hearingimpairment #fdaapproval #hearingaids #airpodspro #airpods #hearing #apple #ios18 #tech #fda
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Apple’s AirPods Pro could be getting a “hearing aid mode” later this year - Enlarge / Apple AirPods on display at the company's Fifth Avenue store ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009584 #hearingimpairment #fdaapproval #hearingaids #airpodspro #airpods #hearing #apple #ios18 #tech #fda
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Apple’s AirPods Pro could be getting a “hearing aid mode” later this year - Enlarge / Apple AirPods on display at the company's Fifth Avenue store ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009584 #hearingimpairment #fdaapproval #hearingaids #airpodspro #airpods #hearing #apple #ios18 #tech #fda
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Apple’s AirPods Pro could be getting a “hearing aid mode” later this year - Enlarge / Apple AirPods on display at the company's Fifth Avenue store ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009584 #hearingimpairment #fdaapproval #hearingaids #airpodspro #airpods #hearing #apple #ios18 #tech #fda
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Apple’s AirPods Pro could be getting a “hearing aid mode” later this year - Enlarge / Apple AirPods on display at the company's Fifth Avenue store ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009584 #hearingimpairment #fdaapproval #hearingaids #airpodspro #airpods #hearing #apple #ios18 #tech #fda
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Yesterday and today I’ve had sudden-onset #hearingImpairment. I went to the ER to rule out really-bad possibilities. It turns out that my Eustachian tubes are inflamed, almost certainly due to having had #Covid 2 weeks ago. This should resolve itself in a week or two, knock on wood. Add this to the seemingly endless list of possible Covid aftereffects.