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Media Access Services: What is so important about them? | November 2022
Every day, we listen to music, enjoy our favorite shows, watch the news, listen to audiobooks and podcasts while driving or going to work...
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Training AI to read your lips — in multiple languages
While widely used speech recognition tools like Siri or Otter generally analyze audio alone, researchers have also made progress in developing visual speech recognition...
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A $350 million initiative to improve vaccine rates among underserved communities — including those with limited English proficiency
On Nov. 22, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced a $350 million initiative to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates in underserved communities. ...
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Do we have enough (human) translators and interpreters to help vulnerable communities?
Refugee crises across the globe this year — from the European Union to Martha’s Vineyard — have highlighted the importance of maintaining a large,...
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Machine translation is no substitute for humans when it comes to law enforcement
When officers arrived at the scene of a violent confrontation and questioned a bystander, they relied on a free machine translation tool to communicate...
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NYC Marathon winner brings sports interpreting into the spotlight
Evans Chebet, a long-distance runner who hails from Kenya, received a lot of attention not just for his impressive finish time at the NYC...