[AG-TECH] Idea For Closed Captioning for the Hearing-Impaired on the AG

[Bob Huebert]

Hi Allan,

   Kudos on the graphic overlay work! We would very much like to 
incorporate this within our node at ARSC/UAF. Could you provide some 
pointers on where to begin? From what I can tell, you are running 
this on your vidcap machine? Any help in figuring this out will be 
greatly appreciated.

thanks

-bob

At 4:45 PM -0500 9/25/01, Allan Spale wrote:
>Hello,
>
>EVL has been using its digital video mixer to do many things.  EVL has
>used the video mixer's chroma key function and video output from the
>control machine to do a message crawl (the type of thing you would see at
>the bottom of the screen when severe weather occurs).  EVL has also been
>using a compose function of the video mixer to put various items on a
>video window like someone's name, where they are from, and maybe a "logo"
>of the university.  To do this, Microsoft PowerPoint and a ticker program
>called Cool Tick have been used.
>
>I have a new idea for improving on the usefulness of a video mixer and
>video output from a computer: real-time closed-captioning for people with
>hearing impairments.  All that you need is a split screen in Microsoft
>Word, a colored background (like blue), and the video mixer.  Someone can
>just type what they hear, and it will appear in the bottom portion of the
>video window.
>
>This could even be expanded to do real-time language translation.
>
>Of course, having the proper tools is half the battle, so a person with
>some sort of stenographer's machine would be better suited to do this work
>than someone typing on a keyboard.  Another step would be to have some
>sort of voice recognition software that would "type" the words for the
>speaker (assuming the regular restrictions of voice recognition software
>to-date).
>
>The video containing this idea will remain in the lobby for as long as
>possible so that people can view how this is being done.
>
>
>Allan
>evl at uic
>node-op

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