Sorry folks. Pressed Send too quickly in my earlier message. My name is khan is going to be released on DVD with audio description here in the UK. So, you can go to any HMV or other retailers and get a standard #DVD of My name is Khan and that will have AD in it.
Regards, Kiran Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/kirankaja12 -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Mann, Madleen Sent: 02 July 2010 10:26 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Talking TV?! 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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