Yandex released the experimental application “conversation”, which will help people with hearing impairment and hearing a dialogue. The application works using Yandex Speechkit technology: it recognizes sound speech and converts it into a visual text for the convenience of hard hearing. The “conversation” also performs the reverse procedure: it voices phrases what were typed on the device. The application also has ready -made remarks for the most common situations. For example, “I don’t hear.

On September 1, the Khabarovsk gymnasium No. 5 opened a special class “Russian-Korean friendship”, writes Vostok-Media. The mayor of the city Alexander Sokolov and the head of the office of the DPRK Consulate in the Far East Moon Ho came to the event. Also at the opening of the class were also attended by schoolchildren, who were specially trained to joyfully meet high guests. According to the publication, this is the second “class of friendship” in Khabarovsk, the first appeared at school No.

Children from another settlement were brought to the school assembly in the Karelian village of Lambasruchey, where parents decided to boycott September 1 due to the reorganization of schools, writes Vesti Karelia. Previously, the parents of 11 out of 26 students decided to boycott September 1 due to the so-called optimization of schools, within the framework of which the Karelia authorities are closing a number of educational institutions in Zaonezhie.

The official representative of the insurance company, Vladimir Markin, donated 400 thousand rubles, which he won in the TV show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” to the South Ural nursing home No. 1, reports the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company “South Ural”. Moreover, Markin himself is a native of Chelyabinsk. As a player, Markin participated in the program in February of this year along with artist Stas Piekha.

American actress Pamela Anderson plans to attend the Eastern Economic Forum and put up several of her own lots at a charity auction in support of environmental projects, Interfax reports . So, the lots will include a dance with the actress and a rescue buoy from the filming of the TV series “Baywatch,” in which she played. In total, 35 lots will be presented during the auction.

On the anniversary of the tragedy in Beslan, photographer Oleg Nikishin thinks how events at school influenced his work and life. All military correspondents are hostages of their status, and it is quite difficult to break out of this world. They are hardly represented in a different role, and the photographers themselves cannot perceive themselves differently.

Alexander Shpak, sent to a maximum security colony for five years on charges of selling ketamine, was released on parole, as reported on the page with a petition in his support. In 2012, Shpak was detained while delivering ketamine to a fellow veterinarian—the drug is used to anesthetize animals. The “colleague” turned out to be FSKN employee Denis Makhonin, who had been communicating with Shpak for two years in the hope of finding a ketamine supply channel.

Residents of Primorye with disabilities held a rally on September 1 near the social insurance fund in Vladivostok, Vostok-Media writes about this. In total, about 30 people attended the rally, who gathered from all over the Primorsky Territory. Wheelchair users complained about the lack of financial assistance from social insurance and absolute indifference to the problems of people with limited mobility.

The police detained two volunteers from the Vera Hospice Foundation who were collecting money as part of the Children Instead of Flowers campaign, writes Mediazona. Among those detained was the site's editor, Dmitry Tkachev. “The two of us were detained near the Kovcheg school. Our detention was carried out by Colonel Alekseev. He said that on September 1, any events are prohibited by the Moscow government, we are being taken to the Lefortovo police station,” Tkachev said.