The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
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The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
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Re: The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
#2Microsoft Teams supports live subtitles - I've not tried it but it looks like it could be interesting. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-live-captions...
Re: The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
#3Two quick misconceptions to call out for those less familiar with signed languages:
1. ASL is not just English with each word replaced with a sign. It's an incredibly complex language with different grammatical rules, some of which don't have English equivalents.
2. It's incredibly flexible. Many core grammar components will remain consistent, but often if you drive to another city, many words/signs will be different. But signers adapt to these changes quickly.
Those two things make this article all the more interesting, because it's a great example of how the flexibility and unique properties of ASL allows for adaptation in circumstances like these strange times.
Source: three years, almost a minor, in ASL in University. I'm no expert, but I truly enjoy the language.
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#4Microsoft Teams supports live subtitles - I've not tried it but it looks like it could be interesting. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-live-captions...
The autogenerated ones in Google Meet can be quite amusing at times.
Re: The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
#5Two quick misconceptions to call out for those less familiar with signed languages: 1. ASL is not just English with each word replaced with a sign. It's an incredibly complex language with different grammatical rules, some of which don't have English equivalents. 2. It's incredibly flexible. Many core grammar components will remain consistent, but often if you drive to another city, many words/signs will be different…
This is kind of unrelated, but I wonder if a small amount (say 100 signs or so) of sign language (ASL or local equivalent) wouldn't be useful for hearing people in their day-to-day lives. I'm very interested in sign-language, but language being what it is you can't do it alone ...
Re: The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
#6Microsoft Teams supports live subtitles - I've not tried it but it looks like it could be interesting. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-live-captions...
The autogenerated ones in Google Meet can be quite amusing at times.
I dread the day when Google/Youtube will start blocking accounts based on what their Speech to Text thinks someone is speaking.
Re: The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
#7Microsoft Teams supports live subtitles - I've not tried it but it looks like it could be interesting. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-live-captions...
English is not always the preferred language. An user of ASL may not necessarily be as proficent in English.
The government version of Teams still does not have live subtitles last I checked.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The autogenerated ones in Google Meet can be quite amusing at times.
I dread the day when Google/Youtube will start blocking accounts based on what their Speech to Text thinks someone is speaking.
Well they already use it to decide if a video can be monetized so it is already happening in some sense.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?visit_id=6...
Re: The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The autogenerated ones in Google Meet can be quite amusing at times.
I dread the day when Google/Youtube will start blocking accounts based on what their Speech to Text thinks someone is speaking.
They already do. There was the case just the other day where someone explaining chess strategy had their video removed for "racial violence" when talking about.....white and black sides of the chess board. Obviously google knows what was said thanks to the speech to text translation.
Re: The Covid Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The autogenerated ones in Google Meet can be quite amusing at times.
I dread the day when Google/Youtube will start blocking accounts based on what their Speech to Text thinks someone is speaking.
Relevant discussion from earlier in the week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26218476