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Enhancing the Usability of Real-Time Speech Recognition Captioning through Personalised Displays and Real-Time Multiple Speaker Editing and Annotation
No full textText transcriptions of the spoken word can benefit deaf people and also anyone who needs to review what has been said (e.g. at lectures, presentations, meetings etc.) Real time captioning (i.e. creating a live verbatim transcript of what is being spoken) using phonetic keyboards can provide an accurate live transcription for deaf people but is often not available because of the cost and shortage of highly skilled and trained stenographers. This paper describes the development of a system that can provide an automatic text transcription of multiple speakers using speech recognition (SR), with the names of speakers identified in the transcriptio
An exploration of the potential of Automatic Speech Recognition to assist and enable receptive communication in higher education
No full textThe 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
Charles Wald and Grover C. Bergdoll at the Controls of a Wright Model B Flyer, 1912
No full textThe photograph is of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll and Charles Wald sitting at the controls of a Wright B Flyer at Huffman Prairie near Dayton, Ohio in April, 1912. The negative has a number 31 marked on the right side. This item is part of the MS-355 Charles Wald Collection.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms355_photographs/1020/thumbnail.jp
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
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: 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
Simple wald tests of the fractional integration parameter: an overview of new results
No full textForthcoming 2008This paper presents an overview of some new results regarding an easily implementable Wald test-statistic (EFDF test) of the null hypotheses that a time-series process is I(1) or I(0) against fractional I(d) alternatives, with d ∈ (0, 1), allowing for unknown deterministic components and serial correlation in the error term. Specifically, we argue that the EFDF test has better power properties under fixed alternatives than other available tests for fractional integration, as well as analyze how to implement this test when the determinitic components or the long-memory parameter are subject to structural breaks.En prens
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
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
Evaluation of the UTAUT model for acceptable user experiences in e-Government physical and virtual identity access management systems
No full textThe modern world is populated with a great many physical and virtual IAMS (Identity Access Management Systems), where people need to maintain various login credentials. There is a key issue associated with this approach, which is the ability to remember this information; however, this can be circumvented to some degree through utilising an innovative approach of a single sign-in mechanism. Throughout the course of recent times, a number of different systems have been developed in order to deliver both virtual and physical IAMS. Moreover, in addition to a greater level of awareness to ensure interoperable virtual and physical IAMS are implemented, there is a pressing urgency for clear guidelines to be devised relating to the integration of: security, comprising identity; user experience, involving usability; and acceptability, encompassing accessibility. Very few models adhere to such guidelines; therefore, this paper seeks to deal with the pressing need to devise, implement and evaluate a model for acceptable user experience, enabling the successful integration of physical and virtual public services in an e-government context. In regard to the users’ assessment, which tests the suggested Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), it was observed that there is an indirect impact on behavioural intention to utilise a new prototype system (Ubiquitous Identity Access Management System ”UbIAMS” ) through various factors, namely effort expectancy, performance expectancy and social influence, as well as through items relating to acceptability and user experienc
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