634 research outputs found
Synote: Synchronised Annotations Enhancing Learning
No full textDr Mike Wald was invited to present the latest developments in his award winning web-based application Synote at a symposium at the IBM TJ Watson research Center New York on November 9th. Dr Wald demonstrated publically for the first time Synote’s unique ability to synchronise live notes taken using Twitter with synchronised lecture recordings and transcripts created using IBM’s speech recognition software. Synote enhances the learning of all students, including disabled students and has been developed with the support of the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee). Synote won the EUNIS Dorup E-learning Award 2009 and is being used in the UK, Germany and Italy as part of the European Net4Voice project as well as in US, Canada and Australia by other members of the Liberated Learning Consortium. Synote can play most audio and video formats on most browsers and computers. Evaluations have shown that students like using Synote, find the synchronised transcripts and notes useful and want more recordings and lectures to be available in this way. Synote was first used by students and teachers at the University of Southampton in October 2008 and new features continue to be added based on user’s feedback. Synote is feely available at www.synote.org and is also now being using extensively by Universities in Pakistan
Synote: Designed for all Advanced Learning Technology for Disabled and Non-Disabled People
No full textThis paper describes the development and evaluation of Synote, a freely available accessible web based application that makes multimedia web resources (e.g. podcasts) easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for all learners, teachers and other users through the creation of accessible notes, bookmarks, tags, links, images and text captions synchronized to any part of the recording
Concurrent collaborative captioning
No full textCaptioned text transcriptions of the spoken word can benefit hearing impaired people, non native speakers, anyone if no audio is available (e.g. watching TV at an airport) and also anyone who needs to review recordings of what has been said (e.g. at lectures, presentations, meetings etc.) In this paper, a tool is described that facilitates concurrent collaborative captioning by correction of speech recognition errors to provide a sustainable method of making videos accessible to people who find it difficult to understand speech through hearing alone. The tool stores all the edits of all the users and uses a matching algorithm to compare users’ edits to check if they are in agreement
Important new enhancements to inclusive learning using recorded lectures
No full textThis paper explains three new important enhancements to Synote, the freely available, award winning, open source, web based application that makes web hosted recordings easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and other users. The facility to convert and import narrated PowerPoint PPTX files means that teachers can capture and caption their lectures without requiring institution-wide expensive lecture capture or captioning systems. Crowdsourcing correction of speech recognition errors allows for sustainable captioning of any originally uncaptioned lecture while the development of an integrated mobile speech recognition application enables synchronized live verbal contributions from the class to also be captured through captions
SYNOTE: Supporting assessment using annotated recordings
No full textThis paper describes the current and future potential assessment uses of Synote, a freely available web based application that makes multimedia web resources (e.g. podcasts) easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for all learners, teachers and other users through the creation of notes, bookmarks, tags, links, images and text captions synchronized to any part of the recording. Synote uniquely enables users to easily find, or associate their notes or resources with, any part of a podcast or video recording available on the web
Synote: Multimedia Annotation ‘Designed for all'
No full textThis paper describes the development and evaluation of Synote, a freely available web based application that makes multimedia web resources (e.g. podcasts) easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for all learners, teachers and other users through the creation of notes, bookmarks, tags, links, images and text captions synchronized to any part of the recording. Synote uniquely enables users to easily find, or associate their notes or resources with any part of a podcast or video recording available on the web and the students surveyed would like to be able to access all their lectures through Synot
Validating the IAMS Framework
No full textThe wide spread of services on the internet has aggravated the issue of maintaining multiple identities such as the virtual identities that are based on specific login credentials like username, passwords and PINs. On the other hand, multiple physical identities also prove to be difficult to maintain since different sources require the presence of different smart cards, mobile devices or other proofs of identities. This paper addresses the problem of how to design an optimum user experience for Integrating Physical and Virtual Identity Access Management System (IAMS) by combining theories in three research perspectives: Security, which includes identity; User Experience, comprising Usability; and Acceptability, containing Accessibility. Existing research in this area tend to focus on one of these research perspectives. However, there is little evidence that researchers have approached the issue of an overlap and conflict between these three research perspectives with the intent of building a cohesive understanding of Integrating Physical and Virtual IAMSs in e-government domain and the relationships that exist between the different dimensions and components. Consequently, this research has developed a conceptual IAMS Framework for Integrating Physical and Virtual IAMS, and used expert evaluations for validating the components of the framework
An exploration of the potential of Automatic Speech Recognition to assist and enable receptive communication in higher education
Get PDFThe potential use of Automatic Speech Recognition to assist receptive communication is explored. The opportunities and challenges that this technology presents students and staff to provide captioning of speech online or in classrooms for deaf or hard of hearing students and assist blind, visually impaired or dyslexic learners to read and search learning material more readily by augmenting synthetic speech with natural recorded real speech is also discussed and evaluated. The automatic provision of online lecture notes, synchronised with speech, enables staff and students to focus on learning and teaching issues, while also benefiting learners unable to attend the lecture or who find it difficult or impossible to take notes at the same time as listening, watching and thinking
Synote: Important Enhancements to Learning with Recorded Lectures
No full textThis paper explains three new important enhancements to Synote, the freely available, award winning, open source, web based application that makes web hosted recordings easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and other users. Synote uniquely achieves this through the creation of synchronized notes, bookmarks, tags, links, images and text captions, enabling users to easily find, or associate their notes or resources with, any part of a recording available on the web. Students surveyed would like to be able to access all their lectures through Synote. The facility to convert and import narrated PowerPoint PPTX files means that teachers can capture their lectures without requiring institution-wide expensive lecture capture systems. Crowdsourcing correction of speech recognition errors allows for sustainable captioning of the lecture while the development of an integrated mobile speech recognition application enables synchronized live verbal contributions from the class to also be captured through captions
Captioning Multiple Speakers using Speech Recognition to Assist Disabled People
No full textMeetings and seminars involving many people speaking can be some of the hardest situations for deaf people to be able to follow what is being said and also for people with physical, visual or cognitive disabilities to take notes or remember key points. People may also be absent during important interactions or they may arrive late or leave early. Real time captioning using phonetic keyboards can provide an accurate live as well as archived transcription of what has been said but is often not available because of the cost and shortage of highly skilled and trained stenographers. This paper describes the development of applications that use speech recognition to provide automatic real time text transcriptions in situations when there can be many people speaking. 1 Introductio
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