Speech Technologies - Accessibility Inroads

A special symposium on accessibility and speech recognition technology

Friday, June 30, 2006

IBM Hursley Research Park, UK

Symposium Proceedings

This special symposium was held in conjunction with the Liberated Learning Consortium annual meeting as an opportunity for consortium members to present research activities on the state of speech recognition technology and accessibility related applications.

Proceedings are available as either “ViaScribed” web documents or conventional PowerPoint presentations [PPT]. IBM ViaScribe speech recognition technology was used by many of the speakers to transcribe their live presentations. ViaScribe automatically synchronized the resulting text with audio, slides, and other multimedia to create these accessible multimedia presentations.

ViaScribed presentations are available on request. &Nbsp;Opening a downloaded ViaScribe presentation launches a web page that contains both audio and text captured in real time during the live presentation. The current point within the presentation is highlighted in yellow. Click on a word anywhere in the text and the synchronized sound will also jump to that point in the presentation. Some presentations include multiple PowerPoint slides displayed across the bottom of the screen. Click on any of these to move the synchronized audio-visual presentation to the selected slide.

Technical Requirements

ViaScribed presentations must be viewed in Internet Explorer only. If the information bar appears at the top of the screen, click to select the "allow blocked content" option.

Proceedings

• Speech recognition for captioning and transcription - Introduction to Liberated Learning
  Keith Bain, Saint Mary's University, Canada
  
• Using speech recognition in university lectures
  Paul Erickson, Saint Mary's University, Canada
• SR in secondary school classrooms: technology impact on pedagogy and student learning
  David Leitch, Saint Mary's University, Canada
• IBM ViaScribe - a research technology that captions live speech and produces multimedia transcripts using SR [PPT]
  Sara Basson, IBM Research, USA
• R&D client-server personal display of SR generated text, real time editing and annotation systems [PPT]
  Mike Wald, University of Southampton, UK
  
• Accessible multimedia and its impact on learning
  Di Paez, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
• Universal design in higher education in Japan: use of SR technology at Hiroshima University [PPT]
  Mariko Fujita-Sano & Mikio Yamamoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
• Caption edit system [PPT]
  Masakazu Takizawa, IBM Accessibility Center Asia Pacific, IBM Japan
• Subtitling for broadcasting using IBM speech technology [PPT]
  Julien Ghez, IBM Accessibility Centre, IBM Europe

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