Love Your Local 'My journey as a deaf NI entrepreneur to creating a global firm'

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Profoundly deaf at a young age Bangor lady Tina Lannin reveals how she turned her lip-reading skills into 121 Captions, a successful global company with clients including Walt Disney, Sky News and Google

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00:00There are about 15 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the UK and about 23,000 use British

00:14Sign Language as their first language. So about 14 million can use captions.

00:22My name is Tina Lannan and I'm the owner of 1-2-1 Captions. We provide live captioning

00:30using call reporters or stenographers who listen and write down everything they hear

00:37you say.

00:41I grew up profoundly deaf and I'm a lip reader. I don't use sign language and I really struggled

00:51getting to university and my career without having support like this.

01:01The captions help employees, deaf employees and deaf students, people in meetings who

01:08are unable to hear what is being said. So all they have to do is to read the captions

01:14on their laptop or their iPad or even on a large wall.

01:22I was born profoundly deaf and I grew up as a lip reader. So I really needed something

01:29like this to help me but I didn't have a service like this available. When COVID hit, we had

01:37been providing this service for a few years already remotely.

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