Further trials await the identification and selection of appropriate students.
Dr Mike Wald is a member of the steering committee of the 'Nuffield Text Transcription Project' based at Manchester City College that is comparing Palantype, electronic and paper based note taking through trials with deaf students.
Technologies and issues of using speech to text transcription using speech recognition software have been investigated and published in Developments In Technology To Increase Access To Education For Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Students Dr Mike Wald (Conference Proceedings "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" Conference, March 20-25, 2000 )
Technical trials of remote speech to text transcription using speech recognition software have been successful using a mobile phone to transmit the speaker's voice to the remote speech to text 'summariser/notetaker' and a Nockia Communicator 9000i to receive and display the transcribed text data as described in Developments in mobile telecommunications technology to increase access to education for deaf and hard of hearing students Dr Mike Wald (Conference Proceedings "International Mobile Telecommunications Seminar", Potsdam Germany, June 6 -7, 2000). Further trials await the identification of appropriate students.
Dr Mike Wald is a member of the Executive Advisory Committee of the
international collaborative Liberated
Learning Project that is investigating the use of
speech recognition to provide real time captioning directly from lecturers
in university classes. Trials in SHEC institutions await the identification
of appropriate students and staff.
Technical trials of remote sign language interpreting over videoconferencing have been successful using ISDN2 based systems (although clearly the higher bandwidth ISDN6 systems can provide a better quality image for lip-reading). Computer networks can also be used successfully for sign language interpreting over videoconferencing.
Further trials await the identification and selection of appropriate students and the installation of videoconferencing capability in lecture/teaching rooms.
Advice has been provided to other HE institutions.
Trials await the identification and selection of appropriate students
and the installation of videoconferencing capability in lecture/teaching
rooms.