http://blog.fawny.org/2005/08/21/ibmsj/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2005/08/21/ibmsj/comment-page-1/#comment-185 Notes from FCC interventions – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:07:57 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2005/08/21/ibmsj/#comment-185 [...] NBC provides yet another encomium for a technology that does not now exist and will not exist in our lifetimes, speaker-independent voice recognition, as a captioning technique. I suppose this indicates contempt for captioning, captioners, and captioning cost. Think of how much tidier it will be when we can simply have a computer do all the boring stuff. I would not want to be deaf in that era. (Or deaf in a classroom that uses such technology.) [...] [...] NBC provides yet another encomium for a technology that does not now exist and will not exist in our lifetimes, speaker-independent voice recognition, as a captioning technique. I suppose this indicates contempt for captioning, captioners, and captioning cost. Think of how much tidier it will be when we can simply have a computer do all the boring stuff. I would not want to be deaf in that era. (Or deaf in a classroom that uses such technology.) [...]

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