Live-caption glasses let deaf people read conversations [video]

Post by zie » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 8:12 PM UTC

jackblemming wrote: post #31

elil17 wrote: post #28

I'm a hearing person and I've spent a summer interning in a 50/50 mixed Deaf and hearing research group. My take is that this is a huge UI improvement for AI speech to text, which a lot of Deaf people are already using to listen to conversations. It seems particularity great because it allows this technology to provide situational awareness while, for example, walking. It's important to remember, though that, for con…

Why can’t they also make glasses that translate sign language into English audio or text then?

Post by generalizations » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 8:17 PM UTC

PuppyTailWags wrote: post #37

generalizations wrote: post #33

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I feel like you're making my comment out to be a lot more hostile than it was intended. I don't see any "problem" with deaf people. I see ASL as, effectively, a foreign language; and it makes sense to me that in general, you're able to live more effectively when you can speak the same language as the people around you. When I traveled overseas to a spanish-speaking country, I learned spanish so that I could communica…

I think you're misunderstanding the parent poster: You don't have to be intentionally hostile to perpetuate harmful and ignorant falsehoods. In fact the parent poster states they don't believe you're intentionally perpetuating ignorance. But, it's reasonable for someone to firmly rebut harmful ignorance in a manner, even if that level of firmness doesn't match your self-perception of your ignorance.

Post by metal_am » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 8:18 PM UTC

TehShrike wrote: post #19

giraffe_lady wrote: post #17

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Why would you compare an entire language to a single technique like that? There is no "the problem" with ASL any more than there is "the problem" with english or any other language. Yes communicating across the barrier can be a challenge but that's just the nature of having more than one language in use.

Only being able to see ASL is different from speaking a different language – it's still English. Not being able to hear is more like not being able to read. It's the same language you already know, but you're missing out on one of the primary ways people use it.

Post by richbell » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 8:18 PM UTC

zie wrote: post #41

jackblemming wrote: post #31

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Why can’t they also make glasses that translate sign language into English audio or text then?

Sign language is a complex language, so something has to learn yet another language. Perhaps made all the more complex as it's spatial and visual instead of verbal or written. Not every deaf person uses sign language and there are many different sign languages in the world. American Sign Language(ASL) is but one of these languages.

Post by drjasonharrison » Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 8:20 PM UTC

sigwinch28 wrote: post #34

I hope (reatively immature) solutions like this will not be used as an excuse to remove accessible infrastructure from the world (e.g. captions at the cinema, live subtitles at the theatre, text displays on public transport).