Great interview with Stacey Abrams

[klook]

Noah Feldman has an enlightening conversation with the electrifying Georgia activist, politician, and author on his podcast “Deep Background” — well worth a half hour of your time:
https://pushkin.fm/deep-background

Or find it on your favorite podcast app.

[tblue37]

1. K&R for Stacey Abrams, even though I am too hearing-impaired for podcasts. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. surprisingly few solutions to that ...

I did some searching, but either I'm rusty or there are still not many on-the-fly speech to text solutions out there.

https://www.hearinglikeme.com/podcasts-the-last-frontier-of-accessibility-for-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-people/

https://www.hearinglink.org/living/loops-equipment/useful-apps-for-hearing-loss/

http://www.voxforge.org/

[tblue37]

3. Very kind of you to go to such trouble for me. Thanks for the links. Generally I don't mind

being so hearing impaired, but it does make conversations hard when people mumble, hide their mouths (I read lips), or turn to the side or try to talk from a distance.

At least with movies & TV I can get captioning.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. My wife and I use captioning on movies ...

It seems most movies are more interested in big noise (immersive sound) than clear speech. Compare old tv shows and movies to modern ones and it's easy to hear the difference in dialog.

I've lost some frequencies from not using hearing protection with power tools. There was a news clip of a parrot mimicking a smoke alarm and I heard neither. I can hear a mouse gnawing inside a wall, but someone whistling at a certain pitch on tv is completely silent.

Text to speech is relatively simple; speech to text appears to be difficult.

[tblue37]

6. And don't get me started about background music? My deafness is progressive, so

there was a time when I could follow movies as long as I wore my hearing aids, but so much dialogue is swallowed by background music. Even my hearing friends complain about it.

[klook]

4. Great, thanks!

I did some looking on my phone but didn't come up with anything.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. VP

Would love to see her on the ticket.

[klook]

8. She's on everybody's short list

and would be such a great addition.