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Interview: Deaf entrepreneur Marion Marincat on accessible acoustic gigs taking place this World Hearing Day (BSL)

March 2, 2023 by

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With World Hearing Day taking place again on Friday, deaf entrepreneur Marion Marincat speaks to Liam O’Dell about his hearing wellness […]

A Bot Topic: Debate continues over the role AI interpreting has in BSL access industry

September 28, 2022 by

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A conversation around artificial intelligence’s place in the British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting profession is continuing to develop, sparking difficult […]

Liam O’Dell: Testing out Paraorchestra’s TouchSound device

September 26, 2022 by

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Haptic, vibration-based tech appears to be growing in popularity. It was just a couple of months ago that I was […]

‘First of its kind’ live caption glasses enter public test phase

July 29, 2022 by

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New smart glasses designed to caption conversations in real-time have today opened up to public previews, with a group of […]

Liam O’Dell: Google invited me to test out Live Transcribe – here’s what I think

May 9, 2022 by

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Just how good are Google’s captioning capabilities? Well, we’ve all logged onto YouTube and relied on automatic captions to understand […]

Liam O’Dell: Social media’s move towards audio and what this means for deaf people

January 29, 2021 by

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Social media platforms are pretty obsessed with audio at the moment. For years we’ve had voice memos and audio-visual content […]

Deaf News: Mobile app aimed at reducing background noise launches in UK

May 29, 2020 by

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A new smartphone app which uses artificial intelligence to control background noise has been made available on iOS devices. Chatable, […]

Deaf News: New brain surgery for deaf children to be funded by NHS England

April 23, 2019 by

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A new medical procedure which enables some deaf children to hear for the first time is to be made routinely […]

Five recent technological advances that are changing deaf people’s lives

October 29, 2014 by

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1. Next generation text relay Once the mainstay of communication for deaf people, Text Relay or Type Talk, as it […]

Deaf News: Researchers develop prototype of fully internal cochlear implant

May 21, 2014 by

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American researchers have developed a prototype cochlear implant which would be entirely internal, with no visible hardware on the outside […]