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Barbara Lindsey

UC Santa Cruz student establishes resource for 'Avatar' language online - Santa Cruz Se... - 0 views

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    Thx to @langology
Chenwen Hong

YouTube Launches Auto-Captioning for Videos - 0 views

  • ouTube, Google, Stanford, Berkeley, and the California School for the Deaf (CSD) are about to speak on YouTube and accessibility.
  • Now the Google Speech Technology team is speaking about the challenges they faced to get auto-captioning operational. Their vision was to create accurate captions for all videos in all languages, but had to deal with huge vocabularies, background noise, poor recordings, accent variability, and distinguishing between song and speech.- Google’s approach is to deliver captions from the cloud, given them the ability to rapidly iterate and model at a large scale.
  • You can only caption your own videos — you can’t just caption someone else’s videos.
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  • You can see the full caption file with timestamps and even download them as a text document. You can also upload your own captions as its own track — useful if auto-captioning isn’t doing the job or to make edits to the auto-captioned text.
  • With auto-captioning, these people can simply use text-based search to find what they need.
    • Chenwen Hong
       
      This means auto-captioning works well as an index for videos. One of its strengths, particularly for us instructors, can be that it helps us effeciently locate relevant clips of videos. This function should also be helpful to our students because we can add notes into the clips at specific frames. Well, the downside is that one might misinterpret videos or misunderstand creators' intentions when using only parts of the videos to suit one's own purposes.
  • You can specify search only brings up videos with closed captioning (it shows the cc icon in search). In the past, when he was at MIT, he couldn’t understand lectures because he had no sign interpreter. Now he can use the captioning to watch lectures he missed.
  • Now students of the California School for the Deaf are speaking (sign language) on how they feel not excluded anymore from the major phenomenon of web video and are grateful to Google for building this technology.
Barbara Lindsey

PopTech : Living Languages Digital Dialog - 0 views

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    Creative use of dotSUB to mobilze a global community to prevent the loss of human knowledge and culture.
Barbara Lindsey

Digital Storytelling for Language, Culture and Civilization Courses | LearnCentral - 1 views

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    BeyondWebCT Elluminate session on digital storytelling
Barbara Lindsey

relearn - 0 views

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    Diego Leal's post which is in Spanish, a language I do not know. I used the google translate link he provides at the top right of his blog to translate the post into English. Naturally, there are issues with the translation, but what I found extremely interesting is that when you click on a section a pop up box with the original post in the TL appears so you can compare the translation with the original. Another great learning tool... 
Barbara Lindsey

What?!? "That's not healthy!" | On an e-Journey with Generation Y - 0 views

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    Great example of the use of skype for language and cross-cultural learning
Barbara Lindsey

National Jukebox LOC.gov - 0 views

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    Can do a search for songs in multiple languages. From the National Library of Congress
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