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Like live subtitling for tv.  The typist has a special keypad and combinations of keys correspond to phonetics, the combinations of phonetics match to words already stored in the computer.  where they don't match you get the pure phonetics come up on the screen.

It's expensive and hard to book so I rarely have access to it but it is a massive help when it is there. I can't listen, lipread, and take notes. I often can't listen and process it into coherent thoughts in order to contribute to discussion.  Palantype helps loads and I can take notes, catch up with the text (it fills a whole projector screen), make more notes. order thoughts, have something to say. Awesome.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 06:23:39 PM EST
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Wow - that is wonderful! I'm sorry, I forget about your hearing difficulties, because it is never part of our conversation channel, except when you refer to it. (I even forget sometimes that Jérôme is French) But I realise now, with a great rush of light, what a fantastic thing this palantype must be for you.

It would be interesting to hear more about it in a diary, maybe even think of ways to make it more available.

I'd also like a version of the palantype that takes common everyday phrases of wisdom spoken by my colleagues, and matches them to a database of the TV programs from whence they come.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 06:48:01 PM EST
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to rile me, are you?

How on earth could anyone forget I'm French?

I don't believe you!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 06:58:10 PM EST
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You said privately that you would pay me by the number of comments I elicited, to keep ET exciting and edgy. You are surely not repudiating your debt? ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 07:03:46 PM EST
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forgot about that. Go on, forget me!

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 07:23:01 PM EST
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ho ho!

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 07:30:55 PM EST
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You're riled because he forgot you?

What's so French about you anyway?

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:38:41 PM EST
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</snark>?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 02:53:16 AM EST
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I've not really talked about the technology I use other than my hearing aid.  There's other bits too which I will diary at some point.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Mar 12th, 2008 at 04:10:13 AM EST
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