Beta Testers Needed to View New Radio Captioning Technology
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Call for Beta Testers to View New Radio Captioning Technology of Earize Communications Providing Streaming Text on National Public Radio (NPR) “Talk of the Nation” Radio Show June 12, 2006 (2:00 — 3:00 P.M. EST)
Many of you have been asking for radio shows to be accessible. Now we at Earize think we’ve developed an inexpensive way to stream radio show text on the Internet — as it happens. But we need your members help to test the technology and find out how many people can reliably use the system at any one time. As well, this technology can be used for emergency situations where television is not an option.
For the last year, Earize Communications has been quietly developing high volume “one-to-many” text streaming technology at its own expense.
Over the last year, the development team has grown to include what we think we think are some of the best minds and most experienced people from across the nation — Idaho, California, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Florida, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
But now it’s time to take the technology out of the laboratory and into the real world. The big questions are: “How many people can use the system at any one time?” and “Will captioned radio really be useful?”
We are hoping that TDI’s members will help us answer these questions.
Two test sessions were planned. One session already took place on June 6, 2006. At least 7,500 people are needed to log-in at the next test session at http://earize.com, in which Earize will display real-time captioning text from NPR’s Talk of the Nation show at 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
EST on June 12, 2006. There is no sign-in, no personal information will be collected, no software or cookies will be downloaded on any computer, and your members will have the satisfaction of knowing that they helped make a higher level of accessibility possible.
Please encourage your members to participate and to share their comments and questions about the test with us at Info@Earize.com. Thank you so much for helping to make this innovative and exciting technology possible.
Sincerely,
Lorraine Carter, RPR
President
[P.S. Not one cent of taxpayer money was requested or used to develop this much-needed technology]