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Claude Almansi

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Vote Yes on New Radio Technology During NPR's Live Captioned B... - 0 views

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    While millions of U.S. citizens voted for national and local elections last week, some of the nation's deaf and hard of hearing citizens were casting important votes on the future of captioned radio
Claude Almansi

NPR News - Live Election Coverage Radio Captioning - 0 views

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    The captioned coverage has ended, thank you for your participating in this demonstration of captioned radio
Claude Almansi

Full video and text: Barack Obama's victory speech - Times Online - 0 views

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    If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
Claude Almansi

Official Google Blog: "In their own words": political videos meet Google speech-to-text... - 0 views

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    With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube's Politicians channels are automatically transcribed from speech to text and indexed. Using the gadget you can search not only the titles and descriptions of the videos, but also their spoken content. Additionally, since speech recognition tells us exactly when words are spoken in the video, you can jump right to the most relevant parts of the videos you find.
Lauren Rosen

How tablets accelerate the ease of learning a foreign language | TabTimes - 9 views

  • French Yelp, the Spanish-version of Craigslist, or the Japanese-language weather app.
  • best route from Le Louvre to Notre Dame in Paris. Students can use the same technology that a native speaker would use to accomplish any given task
  • mobile devices connect users with foreign language newspapers, videos, podcasts, and streaming online radio. This level of remote accessibility into other cultures and languages is completely unprecedented.
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  • how you might use the technology if your first language wasn’t English
  • electing applications that align with personal or professional interests
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  • majority of tablet applications are designed for just one task
  • ask-based approach to language learning relies on authentic language used in authentic ways. Tablets are now proving to serve this purpose
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    Using real apps for real language learning through taks based activities and practice in the ways that native speakers function daily. Authenticity at its best. . 
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