Supporters of the opposition candidate, salvador nasralla, have blocked major roads and set vehicles alight. A partial recount of votes is taking place. Pope francis has met a group of Muslim Rohingya refugees in bangladesh and referred to them by name for the first time on his asian visit. He had refrained from using the term on his earlier visit to myanmar, which does not regard rohingya as an ethnic group. This week, the latest disability tech with object recognition, sign to text translation and snow seat. Seat. The. Seat. Over the past few years, some of the most fascinating technologies weve featured on the show have been the ones that help people with disabilities. As the worlds burst bionic games proved, the possibilities now emerging offer so much potential, whether it be in disability, sight or hearing, weve seen how technology is tantalisingly close but how long before it really sta rts close but how long before it really starts to impact peoples lives for real . This weekend sees the International Day of people with disabilities and thats a great chance for us to devote a whole programme to the latest tech developments in the area. We start in rochester in upstate new york, which has the highest number of deaf or hard of hearing people per capita in the us. The unique combination of this community and the Technical Institute in the area is really starting to drive innovation. Paul carter went to investigate. Rochester institute of technology and its constitute, natch, national Technical Institute for the deaf, are now at the forefront of developing and testing new technologies that help deaf people to communicate. One technology is uni, an innovation that helps to live translate signed language into text and speech. Alex davies demo the prototype. At inglis ido i do the signed for check. I do the signed for checkli i do the signed for check. I want to check my flight. Your flight is on time. As you noticed it came up on the screen as i said that. The system works by using sensors with two cameras that detect individual points on thejoints two cameras that detect individual points on the joints and fingers and renders them into the software to interpret the individual signs, a task more, located than it might first sound. Some signs are naturally doing it over and over again, bag or wear. This bag is a carry on. Thats part of the challenge and the complexity of our applications because we have to be able to filter all of that out, so how does the software know youre not signing bag, bag, bag, just bag. Its safe to say Assistive Technology for deaf people has come a long way in a relatively short space of time. Here at the Rochester School of the death, this museum and the items within it really highlight the items within it really highlight the rate of change of technology that aids communication for deaf and ha rd of that aids communication for deaf and hard of hearing people, from things that look fairly primitive to us now, from ear trumpets to speaking tubes, to the cutting edge technology, such as live translation were seeing today. The advancement of technology represents an opportunity for the advancement of deaf people in the workplace. Rit and in t. I. D. Started experiment in with speech recognition in the classroom so deaf and hard of hearing students who may not know sign language can participate fully. This lectures sign language is being interpreted by a translator. It is then displayed on the board in real time. It it is then displayed on the board in realtime. It will it is then displayed on the board in real time. It will probably help me a lot. When the teacher is signing, i have an interpreter voicing form e. I have an interpreter voicing form e, ifi i have an interpreter voicing form e, if i miss something while taking notes i can look at the screen and see what the teacher said. For me. One of the best things ive found on the laptop, when you can project it to your screen, you can see the closed captioning on your laptop. It allows you to save transcripts so you can use for future reference. Here at rit we provide 25,000 hours of captioning every year for provide 25,000 hours of captioning every yearfor our deaf provide 25,000 hours of captioning every year for our deaf and hard of hearing students who are in classes primarily with hearing professor who is speaking their lecture. We thought one way we can cover those uncovered ours is to use automatic speech recognition. Captioning has been improved a lot in the past few months uncovered hours. It has improved last year when the error rate was so high. But now asr has improved to the point where we feel very confident to pilot the programme to see how well it works. And we can also make improvements with the language model. One of the main challenges of speech recognition has been finding a way for deaf and hearing people to communicate in situations where there isnt an interpreter around. These students are using a special insta nt these students are using a special instant messenger app developed at the university. We all know how inaccurate speech recognition can be. Special speech recognition app. I think automatic speech recognition is just Getting Started really and its going to be improving. I think it opens up a whole new avenue that hasnt been possible before. We want to become the hub for really experimenting and looking for solutions to reduce the communication barriers that separate deaf and hearing people. That was paul carter. Now, in the uk, around 5 of all railjourneys are made by those with a disability ora are made by those with a disability or a long term illness. That equates to around 85 million railjourneys every year. Now, while not all disabled people require assistance, a quarter have reported problems with using public transport. The rail Company London midland is hoping to improve accessibility for its de zeeuw all passengers with a new app, passenger persist, and we asked emily yates to try it out for us. Im emily yates and im just planning my train journey to birmingham. It requires a fair bit of advanced booking. Im confident travelling by myself but im not a huge fan of the train, which is actually why im making this journey. Ive heard about an at in development called passenger assist which could be a game changerfor disabled travellers. I think anybody watching this whos disabled will probably agree with me that you can have some pretty horrific travel journeys if youre disabled. Ive
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