(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since closed video captioning was developed in the 1970s, it hasn't changed much. The words spoken by the characters or narrators scroll along at the bottom of the screen, enabling hearing impaired viewers ...
In 2008, four students at the MIT Sloan School of Management developed a system for captioning online video that was far more efficient than traditional methods, which involve pausing a video frequently to write text and ...
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Apr 9, 2015
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Two researchers at Idiap, a research institute in Martigny that is affiliated with EPFL, developed an algorithm that – unlike systems recently unveiled by Google and Microsoft – can describe an image without having to ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 16, 2015
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YouTube, in a significant development for millions of deaf Internet users, extended automatic caption capability Thursday to all English-language videos on the video-sharing website.
Internet
Mar 4, 2010
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Google, in a significant development for the deaf, announced on Thursday it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube.
Internet
Nov 19, 2009
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Want to learn a new language? Try watching videos in that language with the captions turned on—and slow down the speed.
Social Sciences
Mar 14, 2024
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Facebook says it's bringing closed captioning to Facebook Live to make at least some of the videos streamed live on the social network accessible to people who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Internet
Jun 8, 2017
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Most college and university students who use closed captions and transcripts on video and multimedia find them helpful as a learning tool, despite them not regularly being made available, according to new research from Oregon ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2016
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Two people in a recording booth deep inside a Connecticut office park are helping millions of blind Americans feel part of the Olympics like never before.
Telecom
Aug 17, 2016
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A simple change—switching on captions—can make a big difference when students watch educational videos, an SF State professor has discovered.
Social Sciences
Oct 11, 2013
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