Virtual Voices: Wearable Captioning System to Make Public Venues Accessible
  to People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing 
From: GTRI Research News - 04/12/2005

The system, which relies on mobile wireless technology, will allow users to
easily receive information that is being presented audibly to the general
public in a variety of public venues, such as movie theaters, museums,
playhouses, schools, government meetings, sports arenas, transit stations,
and places of worship. Because the system can transmit multiple text streams,
it may also be used for language translation; its software is internationally
compatible. Also, the system could transmit optional information that a
hearing patron might want, such as statistics at a sporting event.  

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http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/captioning.htm

Links:
Wireless captions empower the deaf 
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=161500257
