Category: Hearing Impaired
For users who have problems hearing, but still have some useful hearing ability.
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iSign – Animated ASL dictionary for iPhone and iPod Touch
iSign is a tutorial and reference program for American Sign Language (ASL) from iDev2. It was designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The program contains an animated phrase book of 800 signs.
Context Sensing & Assistive Technology Study – Chicago
The Laboratory for Understanding Collaborative Technology at Northwestern University is working on a project to build and evaluate new original technologies for users with disabilities. They are currently recruiting subjects with a variety of impairments (cognitive, sensory or motor) from the Chicago area.
Video iPods In Special Education
This video is about the use of video iPods in a special education classroom which caters for children with intellectual disabilities and language or hearing difficulties such that sign language (ASL) is their primary mode of communication.
Accessible iTunes, Accessible iPod – Apple's September Special Event
Apple put on a September Special Event yesterday, announcing iTunes 8, the iPod Nano 4G and other smaller upgrades to software and to the iPod Touch. These announcements, especially that of iTunes version 8 now with full accessibility for Windows and OS X Mac, are fantastastic for users with a disability and reaffirm Apple’s commitment to accessibility.
MovCaptioner 2.0
MovCaptioner keeps repeating a segment of the movie until you are done typing what you hear. Just hit the Return key and it will save your caption and automatically advance to the next few seconds of the movie, allowing you to zip through your captioning tasks in no time flat. You don’t need to be a Flash or QuickTime guru, either. The caption track is added automatically with the click of a button.
CapScribe
CapScribe is an open-source Mac OS X application to help you add captions and/or audio description to audio and video files.
Xmart Volume
Xmart Volume listens to the ambient sound level and turns down your headphone volume when there’s a louder-than-average sound outside – like somebody trying to get your attention.
Captioned Movies In The USA iTunes Store
The deafmac.org blog has posted a list of captioned movies currently available in the iTunes Store, by which I assume they mean the USA iTunes Store. Only twenty one captioned movies so far, but hopefully the number will grow quickly. Does anybody have news about iTunes stores in other countries and whether captioned movies are [...]
Apple laptop as a hearing aid?
How to turn your Apple laptop with built-in microphone and GarageBand into a functioning hearing aid Website: Using your Apple laptop as a hearing aid/sound enhancer ATMac Comment: This is certainly a cute idea, but it’s extremely basic in terms of hearing aids – I doubt whether it would have much functional use for anybody [...]
Subtitle Utilities
Some utilities for dealing with subtitles or captions: SubCleaner Blurb: SubCleaner can: remove unnecessary characters & formatting errors limit the number of chars per line & the number of lines per subtitle convert MicroDVD, SubViewer, SubViewer 2.0, and TMPlayer subtitle formats to SubRip (.srt) format. SubSync Blurb: You have encoded your favorite series, a friend [...]
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