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WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Omnibus Initiative team on Wednesday (March 10) outlined its recommendations to ensure the accessibility of high-speed Internet to people with disabilities. Those recommendations will be included in the FCC's National Broadband Plan due to Congress on March 17. The following is a statement by Kathryn Brown, Verizon senior vice president of public policy development and corporate responsibility:...
YouTube added automatic caption capability to all English-language videos on its video-sharing website Thursday. Users have been able to manually add captions to videos since 2008, and the site started offering machine-generated captions in November of last year for a dozen of its partner channels. YouTube product manager Hiroto Tokusei said on Thursday that the automatic caption feature is now being expanded to all videos on the site in English. Auto-captioning uses speech-to-text technology...
NEW YORK, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On February 7, 2010, the National Football League (NFL) and CBS Corporation ensured that Super Bowl XLIV made history with a record number of captioned commercials and promotions. The NFL and CBS worked closely with the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) to reach this remarkable goal, as well as to bring out the beauty of American Sign Language (ASL) during the National Anthem. "The NAD is grateful to the NFL and CBS for providing an...
Google announced on Thursday that it would be adding automatic captions for its video sharing site YouTube, in an effort to increase accessibility for its viewers.Machine-generated captions would become available initially only in English for videos featured on 13 YouTube partner channels, with plans to expand the feature.Google said creating captions for videos on YouTube is much easier, due to the addition of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology.A range of educational channels,...
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Wall Street Communications today announced it has been retained by Softel to develop and maintain the company's presence in the worldwide broadcast, cable, satellite, and broadband professional trade press. With offices in the United States and Europe, Softel is a global leader in the development and provision of key television and video technologies including subtitling and captioning, interactive TV, MPEG stream processing and multiplexing, opt and...
COAT Applauds Representative Markey for Introducing the 'Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009' WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) is very pleased that Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) has introduced the "Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009" (H.R. 3101). The bill would modernize the Communications Act by ensuring that new Internet-enabled...
Enhancements to Recorders, lecture capture's first Silverlight Player and advanced scheduler revealed at InfoComm 2009 ORLANDO, Fla., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (InfoComm Booth #5071, EduComm Booth #15-17) --- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, today introduced Mediasite 5.1, the latest release of the company's award-winning webcasting platform from the show floor at InfoComm 2009. The latest release...
Latest enhancements include lecture capture's first fully Silverlight-based Players, automated closed captioning and streamlined course scheduling ORLANDO, Fla., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EduComm Booth #15-17, InfoComm Booth #5071 - Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, today introduced Mediasite 5.1, the latest release of the company's award-winning lecture capture platform Mediasite, from the show...
PhoneCaption(sm) Service for Hard of Hearing Now Provides Caller ID NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- American Network, Inc. today unveiled an evolutionary Caller ID feature through PhoneCaption.com's services for Hard of Hearing individuals. Until now, Hard of Hearing (late/accidental loss/difficulty in hearing) callers using captioned telephone services could only see the service provider number and not the calling party's information. PhoneCaption is now the first and only...
PALO ALTO, California, March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- PLYmedia (http://www.plymedia.com) a pioneer in enriching online video announced today the expansion of its portfolio of online video enrichment solutions with the beta introduction of ProPLY for online publishers. ProPLY enables online publishers to enrich their video experience by superimposing interactive contextual information on the video and contextually linking stories to their archive. ProPLY is self-managed, enabling full...
