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Hearing Loss: Come introduce yourself and connect with others
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Do you know that the Google Meet platform has insta captions? It's not perfect, but it mirrors the apps available on the cell phone that change speech to text. ZOOM is working on this for their platform. I don't know what's taking them so long, but HLAA has been working on this for some time. ZOOM needs to hear from people with hearing loss who want/need captions. It is the way of the future and we do not want to be left out. We have a CART provider caption our HLAA chapter meetings. There's a cost to that, of course. Check out the national HLAA website for some of the webinars done on Zoom. They are all captioned. http://www.hearingloss.org The goal, always, is to keep people with hearing loss actively involved in life.
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@julieo4, while you're on the subject of Zoom captions, I thought I'd add some information. There is an upcoming Zoom webinar titled "Ask Me Anything with Eric Yuan" on Aug 19. Eric is the CEO of Zoom so it should be interesting. You can find information about Zoom webinars here: https://zoom.us/events. I've registered for the event and in the confirmation that I received back, questions can be asked in advance. I responded with the following message and hope that these questions get answered:
I will be participating in the "Ask Me Anything" webinar on Aug 19. In case I don't get a chance to ask these questions, I'll let you know now.
1) What is the status of automatic captions? I watched a Zoom training webinar that used the captions and was impressed with the speed and accuracy.
2) When captions are available, will they be free?
3) Currently, if the chat box is not displayed and captions are available, the incoming chat messages overwrite the captions. Can chat messages be moved to not interfere with captions?
Thank you