26. March 2010 by Cape Cod Chapter HLAA Blog.

David Roellke of Cape Cod Hearing Center in Hyannis will discuss NEW ADVANCES IN HEARING TECHNOLOGY at Dennis Public Library in Dennisport.  Coffee and Conversation at 1:30 pm, meeting begins at 2 pm.

David is a very entertaining and most importantly, understandable, speaker who can explain technology in a very nontechnical way.  Plus, the hearing loop in the room and CART, live transcription, means you will understand every word without straining.

Everyone welcome!

Also, Harwich Adult Education programs are beginning soon.

http://www.harwich.edu/depts/hsfrc/hclc/adulted/adedschedule.htm

300                                Intro. to ASL & Deaf Culture                           Cost $80
Mondays 6:00pm to 8:00pm 8 weeks

April 5, 12, 26; May 3, 10 17, 24;June 7
Location: HMS

This course is a basic sampling of everyday vocabulary, ASL instruction and overview of the Deaf Culture. It is a total involvement class and students will quickly learn how to communicate in modes other than verbal. Instructor: Tom Driscoll; Cape Cod Community College Instructor for American Sign Language

402                 Confidence Course for the Hearing Impaired           Cost $85
Wednesdays 5:00pm to 8:00pm 4 weeks

April 28; May 5,12,19
Location: HMS

If you or someone you know has a hearing loss, you should be using email, texting, web captel (FREE captioned telephone service through your computer), and taking advantage of the tons of information
available to you online. Instructor: Bobbie McDonnell. bobbie@lilyweb.net with questions.

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7. March 2010 by Cape Cod Chapter HLAA Blog.

– Here’s some information from another HLA member about You Tube captions.  It’s a great start, though if you are NOT hearing impaired, you should look at Sandra Bullock’s Oscar acceptance speech to see why captioning by human beings is better than voice recognition captioning.  As Dana said, it can be funny, unless you really want to know what someone is saying.  –

As I hope most everyone knows, YouTube recently started providing
automatic transcription/captioning for all new videos uploaded to
YouTube.

I just did a search for a new video to doublecheck on how to make the
captions appear.  It turns out that there are a couple of steps to
take to turn the automatic captioning on for the first time, and that
merely seeing the “CC” with a red background on the bottom of the
video isn’t enough to see captions now.

For example, go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtZLvFrl6qk&feature=aso

Click on the “CC” on the bottom part of the video and wait for the
menu to pop up.

Click on “Transcribe Audio (Beta)” at the top.  This turns on the automatic
transcription/captioning which is done for new videos. (Most older
videos won’t have that feature enabled yet.)

After activating the automatic captioning, one can then choose to change
the caption settings (the font and the size of the captions)  and
one’s account settings (if you don’t have an account on YouTube, it’s
helpful to set one up so you can set captioning preferences, save your
favorites, create playlists, etc.).  I just changed my YouTube account
settings so that automatic captioning is always activated.

The captioning is pretty cool!

Note that the automatic captioning will invariably have errors in it
if the owner of the video hasn’t corrected it. Some of the captioning
will probably be funny when it hasn’t been corrected yet.  <g>

Dana

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