HLAA – Montgomery County Chapter

I’m not sure where this originated, but it’s worth sharing:

As I hope most everyone knows, YouTube recently started providing
automatic transcription/captioning for all new videos uploaded to
YouTube.

I just did a search for a new video to doublecheck on how to make the
captions appear. It turns out that there are a couple of steps to
take to turn the automatic captioning on for the first time, and that
merely seeing the “CC” with a red background on the bottom of the
video isn’t enough to see captions now.

For example, go to this YouTube :

link
Click on the “CC” on the bottom part of the video and wait for the
menu to pop up.

Click on “Transcribe Audio (Beta)” at the top. This turns on the automatic
transcription/captioning which is done for new videos. (Most older
videos won’t have that feature enabled yet.)

After activating the automatic captioning, one can then choose to change
the caption settings (the font and the size of the captions) and
one’s account settings (if you don’t have an account on YouTube, it’s
helpful to set one up so you can set captioning preferences, save your
favorites, create playlists, etc.). I just changed my YouTube account
settings so that automatic captioning is always activated.

The captioning is pretty cool!

Note that the automatic captioning will invariably have errors in it
if the owner of the video hasn’t corrected it. Some of the captioning
will probably be funny when it hasn’t been corrected yet.
Donna in PA

Members of the MontCoHLA chapter attended a Community Forum for People with Hearing Loss presented by the Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing (ODHH) in Plymouth Meeting on March 3. ODHH Representative Denise Brown described the organization and function of ODHH to an audience composed mostly of MontCoHLA members. ODHH activity is summarized as AIR: Advocacy, Information, Referral

Their function is independent of, but related to Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. (OVR)

The session featured CART service, FM links, and two ASL interpreters for Ms. Brown, who is deaf, one for her presentation, and a second for questions and comments from the audience.

The discussion included various ALD systems, and special mention was made of induction loop systems

Members of Philadelphia area HLA chapters attended a performance of “Visiting Mr. Green”, a play by Jeff Baron, at the Hedgerow Theatre in Media, on February 7, between major snow storms.
The performance was Open Cationed, using equipment provided by Art-Reach and made available to cultural institutions in the area. Mr. Green was portrayed by Alan Kutner, an HLA member.