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Interpreter Training

Trudy Field, a well known Christian interpreter, her son Jonathan and his wife Rebecca are all interpreters and are now working together to start a new business to teach Sign Language interpreting.

The business is called Field Interpreter Training and the three interpreters will be teaching the “180 Training Course”. It is a 2-year, part-time course that will allow successful students to register as MRSLI.

It is the first initial interpreter training to be organised in the Yorkshire region.

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Changes at Go Sign!

Raymond AbernethyGo! Sign's  Ministry Director, Laurence Banks, has resigned in order to concentrate on his final year of study at the London School of Theology. The new ministry Director wil be Pastor Raymond Abernethy, from Northern Ireland, who has has agreed to take on the role for one year. Raymond is well known and respected within the Deaf Christian community, both in the UK and overseas. He has worked closely with Go! Sign for a number of years.

 

New Deaf Christian Podcast

St Thomas Church in Sheffield has launched a new Deaf Christian Podcast. Take look here on DeafChurch.

You can also see it here http://www.youtube.com/user/sttomsdeaf

 

 

You Tube to get auto Subtitles

YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site. The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels.

The software engineer behind the technology, Ken Harrenstien, is deaf. The new system  solution combines automatic speech recognition with the current manual caption system.

Sadly the the translation is not always perfect , but Mr Harrenstien says that the technology "will continue to improve with time".

A better alternative is for users to upload a transcript of their video and auto-timing algorithms will match the text to the words as they are spoken.

 

 

Deaf Priest Resigns

Peter McdonoughDeaf Catholic priest, Father Peter McDonough revealed to his congregation at St Joseph's Mission to Deaf People in Salford on Sunday that he had broken his vow of celibacy and that he is leaving the church after confessing he has a four-year-old child.

After a "time of reflection", he decided his responsibility should lie with his family, Salford diocese said.

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Farewell to Peter Orford

Peter Orford and SueHundreds of Deaf and Hearing Friends gathered at Epworth Baptish Church to say farewell and celbrate the life of Peter Orford on Friday 19th June.  Peter and his wife Sue have been well known in the Deaf community. Peter had suffered from prostate cancer but to the end he  had continued to serve and be involved with the Deaf community.

Peter had taught for many years  at Doncaster School for the Deaf where he was much loved by his students many of who came to the funeral and many more sent the best regards, More recently, after his retirement,  he had focussed on gaining qualifications as a Sign Language Interpreter 

He had a long history of service to the Deaf Christian and Churches and among other things maintained the old Hands Together website. 

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