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Apr 12, 2016

Millions of Individuals Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing Stand to Benefit from Highly-Accurate, Low-Cost, Captioning Services

Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI), is pleased to announce its receipt of Google’s $500,000 Impact Challenge/Disabilities two-year grant for a project to create scalable access to affordable, accessible, and accurate captions for any live event by combining available speech-to-text technology with real-time caption corrections made by event-designated peers in addition to caption streaming via the internet.

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Mar 19, 2016

Gallaudet University Technology Access Program, National Association of the Deaf, and Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. are conducting a survey to learn about the experiences of people who are deaf and hard of hearing in their use of Video Relay Service (VRS). Our goal is to use the responses you provide to this survey to help inform the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about the use of VRS among people who are deaf and hard of hearing.

https://tdiforaccess.org/2016/03/we-want-to-know-your-experience-take-the-vrs-quality-survey/