hard of hearing
adjective
: relating to or having partial hearing loss
people who are hard of hearing
the deaf and hard of hearing community
… the task force … will ask the Nebraska Department of Education to hire a national consulting firm with expertise in the area of deaf and hard of hearing education to analyze Nebraska's system.—
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In addition to offering a neat way to translate videos into a user’s native tongue, Edge’s new AI feature should also make videos more accessible to those who are deaf or hard of hearing.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 21 May 2024
Lauren Goode: The ironic part about this is that in the past, Google has really boasted about its live transcription technology and some of its other accessibility features that give you live captions, for example, that are supposed to be useful to the hard of hearing community.
—Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
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Emma Roth, The Verge, 21 May 2024
Lauren Goode: The ironic part about this is that in the past, Google has really boasted about its live transcription technology and some of its other accessibility features that give you live captions, for example, that are supposed to be useful to the hard of hearing community.
—Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
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“Hard of hearing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20of%20hearing. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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