JDA Magazine Paperturn Sept 2024 - Flipbook - Page 35
WOMEN OF THE 1950S —
FROM THE KITCHEN SINK
TO CAREERS
SIGNAPSE TALK —
WHEN WE LEARNT ABOUT
AI INTERPRETING!
Moshe Moshy writes:
Arun Krishna writes:
We were delighted to welcome back to JDA our
dear friend Rachel Kolsky! Rachel is a historian,
author and a highly entertaining storyteller.
Rachel regaled us with interesting stories about The
Fabulous Fifties. This was the decade when I was
born. In the 1950s, women’s lives started to change.
Until then, they were housewives, dedicating their
lives to their husband, home and family.
▲ Moshe Moshy with Rachel Kolsky
Gradually, over the years, household appliances
saved time and e昀昀ort and many women wanted
more. Many went on to have thriving careers
and, controversially, some women started to excel
in areas they were not expected to, becoming
successful lawyers, architects and TV producers.
Fashion changed, music changed, food changed,
shopping changed. Tesco was born and frozen
foods were introduced — including 昀椀sh 昀椀ngers!
Later, processed foods came along and women
needed to spend less of their lives in the kitchen.
Rachel spoke about how women’s fashion evolved
and Colleen reminisced about living in those
times. This was the era of Frank Sinatra, Marilyn
Monroe and old 昀椀lms, which brought back lots of
memories of our time growing up.
Thank you Rachel for a very interesting talk, as
always. Please come back soon!
Signapse came to
give a talk to us.
I was curious to 昀椀nd
out who they are and
what work they do.
The lead speaker was
Marcus Oaten, who
also happens to be
Brinthan’s good friend!
Marcus wanted to get our feedback, and to
check if their ‘computerised interpreting’ is clear
enough. Marcus explained that Signapse does
not want to take over human interpreting — it
wants to 昀椀ll a void. Signapse does translation
that is one-way to the Deaf person. So,
basically, it is for information messages such
as announcements at train stations, airports,
supermarkets and so on.
Marcus explained that Signapse will free up
human interpreters where they are needed.
We gave our feedback and told Marcus where
we would like this service to be available to
us. We shared stories of situations where we
have felt lost without information and access to
public announcements.
The AI interpreting is very clear and it is
amazing that it is a ‘digital’ person! Actually, the
person on screen is real, but AI conjures up the
signs and words matching the announcements
to form its own sentences, and the result is
smooth translation. I was shocked at how good
and e昀케cient it is!
This is a sign of what to expect, now and in the
future.
Visit www.signapse.ai for more information.
29
