Would you fancy radio broadcasts with scrolling texts? If yes, then you are in for some good news, as on Tuesday the 9th of January at the CES 2008, a new technology has been unveiled, which would be able to do just that. Soon, radio listeners using a receiver with a screen, would be able to scroll the same text, very similar to how closed captions roll-by on TV.
This technology is backed by none other than the National Public Radio and Harris Corp., a major supplier of broadcasting equipment, as well as a new research center at Towson University near Baltimore. Initially, the radio text service is expected to operate like closed captioning (where someone types what’s being said on the radio into a computer system in real time).
Over time, the consortium hopes to find software to translate speech into written text and automate the service and reduce the cost, so that a wider variety of radio stations can offer it. Hopefully, this prototype text-radio will become a reality soon, and not just for the general listener, but, will help make programming more accessible to the deaf and blind people.
Via: basesciences
