AI Meets Accessibility: Improving Communication Beyond Traditional Captions

What if phone calls and video chats could finally adapt to the way people with hearing loss actually communicate? In this conversation, Gael Hannan speaks with Paul Lee, COO of InnoCaption, about the company’s latest accessibility innovations designed to improve communication for people with hearing loss....

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