- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 08:40:02 -0400
- To: "User Agent Working group list" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Brand" <sbrand@speche.com> To: <access-l@icomm.ca> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 12:29 AM Subject: Deaf-Blind Internet Captioning Solution Greetings, I just wanted to relay to ACCESS-L that my company has recently developed a product called eScription which enables for live captioning over the Internet. eScription was originally designed for the media to provide real time, multi-language text over the Internet and was introduced at each of last October's Presidential Debates. (Demo http://www.speche.com/SpecheBox/SpecheBox.asp?ID=1) Our streaming text solution is base on streaming media technology and integrates with streaming audio and video if need be. In light of the explosion in Internet-based broadcasting to relay breaking news both financial and general as well as educational content, we feel strongly that the deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind communities are receiving an unfair disadvantage in terms of accessibility; we hope eScription addresses this discrepancy. In addition to providing real time text which aggregates into complete documents that can be retrieved and queried by key word, we have made the live captions modifiable by end users in terms of font color, style, and size. We hope that these alterations will help individuals who are visually sensitive to such differences. My company is not a captioning nor court reporting company, rather a technology partner for captioning and court reporting companies / organizations who are in need of a real time Internet captioning solution. I hope you do not mind my email and desire to share this innovation with you. I would greatly appreciate any feedback that you may have in terms of our product. Please let me know if I may be of further assistance. Best wishes, Stephen Brand President Speche Communications 6300 Enterprise Lane Madison, WI 53719 sbrand@speche.com Phone: (608) 298-0649 Fax: (608) 298-0679 Cell: (608) 279-7838 www.speche.com
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