ACT is a worldwide network of churches, including the Lutheran World Federation, meeting human need through coordinated emergency response. The Lutheran World Federation is a worldwide communion of 122 member churches, including the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. As the Rev. Jenny Bogard preaches the sermon at Holy Apostle's Lutheran Church, Hickory Hills, Ill., a computer driven display will project her words for those who cannot hear her voice. The system will premiere Sunday, Oct. 5, according to the Rev. Dayton Williams, deaf ministry coordinator for the Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Previously, speech recognition software required speakers to use 'discrete speech' that put pauses between words in order to recognize them.
New software is able to understand speakers who talk naturally.
The new programs make fewer phonetic mistakes because the program can tell the difference between words which sound alike by taking grammar, meaning and syntax into consideration, he said. A diesel-powered ferry, arriving at Montrouis, capsized and sank. Of the estimated 276 passengers, only about 60 were able to swim to shore. The remaining passengers, trapped inside the ferry, were drowned. One hundred families on La Gonve island, families directly affected and children who have lost both of their parents, have received ACT-funded aid.