The UNI app works with Leap Motion technology to translate each sign from American Sign Language into audible words on a tablet.
Racism is in play, as is uneasiness with Spanish as an increasingly audible second language.
What impressed me most was the Babel of languages audible among the files of visitors pouring off the tour buses.
Elsewhere in Germany's somber political landscape, such emotional language and audible sensitivity would immediately be seen as weakness.
Those who prefer the brasher kinds of contemporary music may find Mr. Harbison's score, with its audible textures and essentially tonal harmonic language, rather well mannered and soft-spoken.
The Spanish-language service will include access to over 1,000 age-appropriate books, videos, educational apps, games, and soon Audible books, the company says, all in Spanish language for no extra cost beyond the existing FreeTime Unlimited subscription.
We make the whispered parts of it audible; we translate the coded parts into everyday language.
By the end, Homans writes, MacMillan "had reduced ballet's eloquent language to a series of barely audible grunts".
Sometimes the words are barely audible.
