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I regularly watched the Charlie Rose program when it aired on PBS. Tonight I discovered a recent conversation Mr. Rose had with Tom Friedman. This episode focuses on the beginning of Trump's second term.
@Mona- thank you very much. I do try to be careful when I'm writing. My air traffic control experience really taught me the importance of communicating clearly and unambiguously.
The funny part is that I was never much of a student, due to laziness and general lack of interest. I couldn't diagram a sentence to save my behind. Lessee now... verbs do stuff and nouns have stuff done to them... or something like that.
@Old_Joe: I an entirely with you on the need for closed captions, especially for TV. As you know, there is a time lag between what you hear and what appears on the screen. Accuracy is generally hit or miss.
I use Zoom for meetings and I put on my Sennheiser around-the-ear headphones to improve my listening comprehension. The Zoom software has become amazingly competent, to the extent that it can be used to teach sophisticated classes online. While fooling around with the closed captioning function, I discovered that captions are available in many languages. I was participating with a group of French speakers of varying competence and ability to pronounce without a strong accent. What amazed me was Zoom’s speed and accuracy in providing an instantaneous written version of the dialogues, Often people were speaking over one another, but Zoom did not stall or slow down. I know French grammar very well and I can attest to the accuracy of what I was reading. I don’t know another language well enough to test the software’s performance in Spanish or German, say.
Maybe I’ll try living a lot longer so that I can benefit from really high-tech hearing aids; I’m sure the technology to make your and my lives easier will arrive soon.
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The funny part is that I was never much of a student, due to laziness and general lack of interest. I couldn't diagram a sentence to save my behind. Lessee now... verbs do stuff and nouns have stuff done to them... or something like that.
I use Zoom for meetings and I put on my Sennheiser around-the-ear headphones to improve my listening comprehension. The Zoom software has become amazingly competent, to the extent that it can be used to teach sophisticated classes online. While fooling around with the closed captioning function, I discovered that captions are available in many languages. I was participating with a group of French speakers of varying competence and ability to pronounce without a strong accent. What amazed me was Zoom’s speed and accuracy in providing an instantaneous written version of the dialogues, Often people were speaking over one another, but Zoom did not stall or slow down. I know French grammar very well and I can attest to the accuracy of what I was reading. I don’t know another language well enough to test the software’s performance in Spanish or German, say.
Maybe I’ll try living a lot longer so that I can benefit from really high-tech hearing aids; I’m sure the technology to make your and my lives easier will arrive soon.