LIFESIGNS

LIFESIGNS, Inc.providing communication access to the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing communities of Southern California through sign language interpreters.

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Workshop over. Thanks for following :) #fcclive

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Wanting to benefit hearing/doh communities as well as their loved ones and their comm partners. whole community benefits #fcclive

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FCC looking for direction as we progress, we dont know how to do it, want to learn quick, fail quickly, then improve and succeed. #fcclive

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Not last opportunity for this topic. While progress occurs, will reconvene so all participants/communities will be informed #fcclive

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Goal is to faciliate people that often do not meet/collaborate. Integrate comp sci, health, users. Rapid progress can occur. #fcclive

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Workshop coming to close, now doing "thank yous" to researchers, visitors, panelists, etc.

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FCC: Not only giving funds, also regulating body. Can encourage and adopt rules. FCC can involve beyond $. #fcclive

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Dont advance science, advance the use of science in your application. THen sort what needs, what can, what is being done. #fcclive

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Panelist Recommend: Don't fund what is most important. Fund what others will not fund. Your budget is small. #fcclive

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If RTC/text has errors, how can they interpret the text with limited linguist proficiency? #fcclive

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RTC, text-to-speech; what happens when various literacy levels connect? Depends on english fluency? Diff literacy trends in def/hoh #fcclive

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Panelist: For age-related hearing loss, can they use tech and evolve with new tech? Bring seniors into lab, can use it? #fcclive

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FCC: What is high priority research outside your own lab? Q to panelist. Areas not receiving attention? e.g. summarization. #fcclive

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TTY typed record is useful is to capture key information. Maybe sender injects info that stays?. #fcclive

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Panelist: For elderly, can we have tools to summarize content? Elderly people do not retain the information. #fcclive

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Panelist: Most comm has one or two really important parts. How can we emphasize the crucial data. Echoing technique. #fcclive

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Panelist: Most speech is not communication. Empty words. Tricky: part of comm is worse when comm is unexpected. #fcclive

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Panelist: Metric - speech comprehension, did the recipient retain the message? Also can use shadowing in lab environment. #fcclive

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Panelist: Semantics for speech-to-text should be studied in laboratory like mine. Studying comprehension and retention. #fcclive

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FCC: Difference between word accuracy and understanding. Semantic understanding vs verbatim transcripts. Hard to solve, how eval? #fcclive