Do you know that they do now bollywood movies with Audio description? I'm very pleased about that!best wishes, m
Adleen -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Amrit Pal Sent: 02 July 2010 05:12 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Talking TV?! It's an encouraging development. Someone should take charge of this development here in India, too. ----- Original Message ----- From: "pradeep banakar" <pradeepsocialw...@gmail.com> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:52 PM Subject: [AI] Talking TV?! > > World's first talking TV now a reality > > June 8th, 2010 - 13:36 UTC > by Andy Sennitt. > > TVs that can talk to their owners are now a reality thanks to British > high-tech company, Ocean Blue Software. Expected in UK stores by the end > of the summer, the company's low cost text-to-speech technology, dubbed > "t...@tv", is being built into set top boxes from Korean company, Arion > Technology, which will be branded and distributed by major retailers in > the UK from August. > > The new set top boxes are like regular Freeview or satellite boxes, but > will be able to talk to their blind or partially-sighted owners - > advising, via speech technology, the TV programming schedule, for example > what's on and when. Owners will be able to adjust the speed and verbosity > of the voice to suit their needs, choose to enlarge or reduce font sizes > and change background and text colours. A re-designed and easy to use > remote control will also be included. > > The technology has been developed in partnership with digital TV chip > giant, STMicroelectronics, whose processors lie at the heart of most TVs > and set top boxes. Phase two of the development will introduce voice > activation technology to allow owners to talk back to their TV sets - > "channel up", "channel down", "volume up". > > "The digital switchover has multiplied the number of channels to 40 plus, > for UK consumers, making navigation very difficult for the visually > impaired," said Ken Helps, CEO of Ocean Blue Software. "This technology is > a step forward to making digital TV accessible to all sectors of the > community". > > Ocean Blue's t...@tv will be available in different languages and > dialects; the UK version supports both the Scottish Gaelic and Welsh > language for example. The technology behind t...@tv is a derivative of the > pioneering work and development between the Royal National Institute for > the Blind (RNIB) and Ocean Blue over the last three years. The development > won an IABM Award for Excellence in Design and Innovation, was nominated > for a Royal Television Society award and shortlisted for an IMS TV > Innovation award in the USA. > > The Arion Talking set top box will be available in a number of UK > retailers. > > (Source: Ocean Blue Software/Arion Technology) > Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with > disability bill at: > http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm > > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. 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