In celebration of its one year anniversary, Project readOn unveils a new feature — Embedded videos. Users can grab the code from Project readOn to add captioned videos to their own sites, blogs, and social network pages. The player on the Web site contains two new buttons, “Email this captioned video to a friend” and …
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Deaf People Wanted for Reality Shows
Rita suggests deaf people with families to apply to be on a reality show as few have shown deaf families. She lists three shows. Extreme Makeover Home Edition had deaf parents (Vardons) on the show and the Llanes who have a deaf son. Plus it takes a lot to qualify for the show. I think …
Internet Relay with VCO
I have a Captel phone, but hardly ever use it mainly because my family takes care of phone calls or I use the Internet relay service without voice carry over (VCO). I prefer using my computer for calls since I can keep a record of the call — something the Captel phone doesn’t have. Now …
Smell Alarm
Ew. I’m sorry but the smell alarm just doesn’t appeal as shown in this Make article. I’ll stick with the vibrating alarm. Contrary to what the post says, deaf people don’t wear alarms. Yes, they have to be activated — but it’s not hard. Besides… the smell of smoke could erase the smell of horseradish.
More on Convert Voice Mail to Text
I opened the floodgates when I posted about a voice mail to text service. I learned about another and another and another. Here are the companies that provide voice mail to text services: GotVoice Phonetic Simulscribe SpinVox Pricing is generally the same at $9.99 for 40 messages per month. Curious as to how the services …
Hollywood and Deaf Actors
Chris of DeafDC Blog opens an interesting discussion about Hollywood’s actions indicating a preference to deaf actors and actresses who speak. My vote — do a mix. Some roles can be deaf actors who don’t speak and some do. This will be more representative of the deaf population’s diversity. Having a hearing actor play a …
Baby Sign Game
Baby Sign Game is adorable! This game provides a word and players pick one of four pictures that correctly represents the word in sign language. I only missed one word and that was dog (easy), which didn’t use the fingersnapping. Not sure what that was about. Surprised myself — I know more sign language than …
Convert Voice Mail to Text
OMG! I saw this in Guy Kawasaki’s e-mail signature (he surprisingly responded to an e-mail I sent to Alltop). SpinVox (UK residents go to the main SpinVox) can convert voice mails to text. This just might be worth the money. It also has a Memo feature, but I am not sure if it sends memos …
More on the AGBell Letter to Pepsi
Just learned National Association of the Deaf (NAD) wrote a letter [pdf file] [Letter and video in NAD blog] to Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing regarding AGBell’s letter to Pepsi. Here’s the backstory, if you missed it. I appreciate NAD’s letter. I think it would have more power had …
Deaf Advantages of Travel
Here’s a great story from the Guardian about how being deaf can help when traveling especially to other countries. When I flew alone on Southwest Airlines, I went to the check in desk and let the staff know that I was deaf and would need notification when to board. Without a beat, she said I …