[HN Gopher] Ultratec Technology Timeline
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       Ultratec Technology Timeline
        
       Author : mountainplus
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-03-12 10:14 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | rbanffy wrote:
       | I love the design of the INTELE-TYPE. It's a shame they are no
       | longer made.
        
       | imglorp wrote:
       | Meanwhile, there have been some cultural developments. Many deaf
       | now learn sign as a first language and may not even learn their
       | local, written/spoken language until much later in life, so are
       | uncomfortable with written. Sign is also far faster and more
       | expressive than anything typed: think how the internet invented
       | emojis as a poor substitute. As a result, this class often prefer
       | signing over face-to-face video chat, with an interpreter if
       | necessary.
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       | In the US, it wasn't understood that early language access is
       | essential to infant brain development until the 80s, at which
       | point ASL gradually replaced clumsy attempts to teach English. So
       | there is now a whole culture (capital-D Deaf) that are ASL users
       | all day with English as a second language.
       | 
       | Back to this context, there might always be some TTD and caption
       | phone users, and captions can be auto generated now. We're
       | probably at a point where a true AI video interpreter is
       | possible. Good ASL training data is probably going to be the
       | bottleneck.
        
         | Thorrez wrote:
         | If they're uncomfortable with written language, does that mean
         | they're uncomfortable on the internet or using
         | computers/smartphones?
         | 
         | For hearing people, the trend seems to have been younger
         | generations are more into technology, so it's surprising to me
         | that for deaf people it would be the opposite.
        
           | imglorp wrote:
           | No, I think they're tied to their devices like the rest of
           | us. But the apps and places they visit might be different.
           | While we might prefer typing and blogging, Deaf might post a
           | video of themselves signing at full speed, without captions
           | or transcript, which only another sign user might be able to
           | follow. So you can see how the cultures might diverge a
           | little.
        
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