Team Gleason’s Speech Accessibility Project (2024)
Louisiana: The State We're In
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Newsmagazine
Place Covered: New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Date Issued: 2024-08-23
Duration: 00:07:17
Subjects: Nonprofit organizations | Technology | Health | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Contributors:
- LeBlanc, Karen Host
- Redmond, Joe Interviewee
- Duos, Brad Interviewee
- Kornman, Emily Interviewee
Description
This segment from the August 23, 2024, episode of the series “Louisiana: The State We’re In” features Karen LeBlanc’s report on Team Gleason’s Speech Accessibility Project, a project aimed at training voice recognition software to better understand individuals with ALS. LeBlanc reports that Team Gleason was founded by former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2011. She interviews: Joe Redmond, ALS patient; Brad Duos, lead technology specialist with Team Gleason; and Emily Kornman, speech language pathologist with Team Gleason. This segment is a part of the “Good News Louisiana” series.