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October 2, 2006

Google Video offers Closed Caption playback « sgLEAD

Filed under: Technology

Singapore Librarians for Empowerment & Advocacy for the Disabled (sgLEAD) has a neat demo on how close captioning helps even the hearing too.

The Closed Captioning feature in Google Video will be a boon to those who are Deaf or Hearing Impaired, especially when services like Google Video and other similar video-sharing platforms are gaining popularity. To appreciate why features like Closed Captioning are important to a person with hearing-impairment, try this experiment:

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Learn more about sgLead here.

P/S: I so love libraries! Along with being a zookeeper, being a librarian is one of my unfulfilled childhood ambitions. :)

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