Closed-Captioned HD Radio

HD radio, the new digital radio technology, can carry text as well as audio.  Although designed to tell you what song you’re listening to, it obviously has other multimedia benefits.  Well, the wizards at NPR teamed up with Harris Communications and a new research center at Towson University to give us captioned radio: a simultaneous text stream accompanying talk radio’s audio.  It will not require a separate box or any additional device, since the text stream is built into HD radio’s DNA.  A look for more accessibility innovations from Towson’s ICART — the International Center on Accessible Radio Technology.

Ces 2008: First Ever Closed-Captioned HD Radio for the Deaf Launched By NPR, Harris and Towson University