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From: richr@iddic.UUCP (Rich Rodgers)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.consumers
Subject: Re: Re: Commercial ventures
Message-ID: <1866@iddic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 13:34:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 30 13:34:44 1984
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Reply-To: richr@iddic.UUCP (Rich Rodgers)
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Summary: 

In article <940@teddy.UUCP> mlf@teddy.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum) writes:

>   My own idea for an indispensible consumer product takes note of the fact
>that many TV programs are now being broadcast "closed captioned."  These
>send character codes for the subtitles during the picture blanking interval.
>This means that the receiver has the subtitle text in machine-readable form
>(the decoder then generates the video for the characters).
>
>   Now, hardware to synthesize speech is available and, because of the
>prevalence of LSI chips, becoming cheaper and cheaper.  One could take the
>character codes corresponding to the subtitles, process them into words
>with a microprocessor, and convert the resulting words into speech.  Said
>another way, one could build a little box to speak the subtitles!
>
>   That way, even blind people could watch TV!
>
>						Matt

Are you serious?????

Subtitles take away most of the sounds.  Blind people can already hear
a normal television, so would not need this technical marvel of yours.


Why am I here, what am I doing?