Crowdsourcing Could Help Deaf People Subtitle Their Everyday Life

  • July 26, 2012
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Researchers from the University of Rochester have developed an app which allows Deaf individuals to read subtitles that correspond to their daily lives. The app is called Scribes and it beams an audio track from the user’s phone to a central server that is designed to recruit workers from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service. Workers will hear the audio from the user’s phone and will then transcribe what they hear for the Deaf individual. A beta version of the app is scheduled to be released in the near future.

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