The Gray family was in an accident this weekend. They lost their almost 3 year old daughter Helen. Brian has been released from the hospital. Kristy on the other hand has apparently broken her back. My heart cries out in prayer for this family. May God comfort them in their suffering and loss. Please add them to your prayer list.
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Since this is a blog, I suppose an update of sorts is needed. While it’s been a busy past few weeks not much has really happened.
I’ve needed a phone upgrade for about a year now. My xv6800 has been all but worn out. Sure a new battery would fix the 2 hour battery life, but it really wouldn’t fix the slowness, the GPS being locked out, or the randomly missed calls. Hint: the phone is supposed to ring when calls come in.
This caused a dilemma, I knew I wanted another smartphone, and I was pretty dead set against another Windows Mobile phone. Microsoft really needs to scrap the whole thing and start back at the drawing board if it wants to get in the game. What I wanted was the iPhone. Problem was I’m on Verizon and still had until January 2010 before I was out of the contract.
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Wow. For those of you who are not in the know, I’m hearing impaired. I’ve lived with a steady diet of closed captioning for most of my life. When the internet first came around it was primarily text and pictures which made the intertubes easy to enjoy despite the slow speeds. However with the advent of greater bandwidth came video blogs, and the mumblers of the internet were able to strike a heavy blow against those with my impairment.
Then Google came to the rescue.
They’ve developed technology that will automatically scan videos and allow me to view them with captions, whether or not people meant for it to be that way. And as they say in the article, since it’s computer-based, this also means that we will be able to use Google’s translators to have subtitles for videos in any language.
Now the technology is not perfect. In the article they have an example of how the transcription has gone hilariously wrong. Again, Google has provided a way to help with that as well. Upload a text file with the transcription already in it, and Google will use their technology to match your text file up with the timing of the speaker.
I’m so excited for this technology! I can’t wait for it to be fully implemented.
“With great power comes great responsibility” This is the sage advice Uncle Ben gives to Peter Parker but did you know it’s a Biblical concept? “…to whom much was given, of him much will be required…” Luke 12:48
Geeky bible applications for the win!