Chalana Perera's List: ITGS Pract Port 1 - Resources

• Seattle Opera projects English captions, a simultaneous translation of the sung words, above the stage during every opera performance. These captions are visible from every seat in McCaw Hall.

• Their captioning runs though a PowerPoint program, says associate artistic director Sandy Shinner.
• "We have the scripts electronically, and then it's formatted in a PowerPoint presentation and then presented both on the small television screens and on a screen, a larger screen sometimes integrated into the set design, sometimes to the side of the set on the wall,"

• Captioning is only available for specific performances.

  "We could do it at every single performance, we would just have to pay someone else to be in the booth and advance text,

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• substantial costs for displays screens and   the onsite attendance of a skilled captioner at each   show.

• Captioning Systems has a great method of  delivering captioning in the theater.
• Prior to the performances the script was converted from a standard  live theater/musical theater script to standard captioning format using  PCS Live Theater Captioning software
• Sign language interpreters are useful to a minuscule group of deaf  people fluent in sign language who are positioned close enough to be  able to watch interpreters' hand movements
• One in 10 people has some form of hearing loss,  and this larger group would appreciate communication enablement,

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• Constant Image Height' widescreen setup

• There are three common subtitle placements for standard DVD and high-definition Blu-ray disc transfers that Hollywood has settled into:

  • Within the film frame (like it would be if you were watching in a movie theater)
  • Below the film frame in the bottom black bar space
  • Partially within and partially below the frame
• Some disc players are capable of shifting the placement of subtitles on the screen

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• headset uses a tiny projector to display images on a user's retina
• used real-time translation to provide subtitles for a conversation between people lacking a common language
• At the same time as a user hears a translation, they would also get text subtitles beamed onto the retina.
• The cost does not include the price of the translation tools and software

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• House which scrolls the entire text of the production, open captioning provides enjoyment for audience members who are not self-identified as hard of hearing or who merely wish to catch a missed word or phrase.
• without requiring special equipment
• profit advocate for the provision of professional Live Performance Captioning
• listening devices are also available, free of charge.

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• public-interface URL
• on-screen annotation editor
• multiple languages of captions at the same time, which show up as separate tracks in the time line
• exports your captions as a .sub file that can be worked on in a separate text editor or sent out with the source video to be viewed locally with the captions in something like the VLC player

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• machine-generated captions
• YouTube offers a manual captioning service but video makers tend not to use it
• The translation is not always perfect
• media industry
• group of radio stations, newspapers and websites

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• device which enables theatre goers to read live captions of a performance in eight different languages
• received over wifi
• LED backlighting
• battery life of up to six hours.
• screen into a theatre that wouldn't distract the rest of the audience
• 200 handsets can run simultaneously
• I can't vouch for the authenticity of the oriental texts
• process cannot be automated.

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• earch engines are unreliable tools for data collection for research that aims to reconstruct the historical record.

• nternet search engine. But the front pages of such sites as Google, Yahoo and Altavista are hiding hugely complex and refined systems for cataloguing and analysing millions of web pages
• cheat the engines to come top of the search rankings.
• find out how they were invented, how they work, and what the future holds for the programs that effectively control our access to the web.

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• The system has several underlying database tables, including zip codes, cities and station data. The zip code and city tables, in addition to containing information about the locations, also include the latitude and longitude for the centroid each location.
• At the core, the system works based on latitudes and longitudes.
• Once we have the latitude and longitude, we perform a series of calculations based on the Great Circle Calcuation (GCC), which helps us to determine distances on a curved surface (ie. the Earth - and we are assuming that it is not flat). Using the GCC, we look for stations near the latitude and longitude, based on a 100 mile radius from that point. From that list of stations, which is too inclusive, we start our process of narrowing down the results to the actual stations that can be heard.
• - a web-based service to inform our audience as to which NPR stations are available throughout the country. There are other more sophisticated, more precise ways to identify the station coverage maps which are really overkill for this type of service.

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• Most people using a search engine expect to find what they are looking for on the first page of results,

• good results should have "good pages, text rich content, and good links pointing to you".  

   

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  • efficiency, equality, reliability of databases and search engines

• An inquiry into why the world's largest database on reproductive health blocked searches using the term "abortion" has found the restriction was put in place because of articles from an abortion advocacy magazine available on the site.
• The block was an "overreaction," says Michael Klag, the dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, which maintains the POPLINE database.

• Internet users have been turning en masse to search engines for information, following the unprecedented terrorist attacks