Liberated Learning

Youth Initiative

Increasing access to Speech Recognition transcription technology

Speech Recognition (SR) technology is emerging as a promising solution for automatically captioning and transcribing multimedia: videos, podcasts.... even lectures.

Through a new project supported by Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program, students with disabilities attending post-secondary education and National Disability Organizations will be using advanced Speech Recognition technology to improve access to information.   Project Description

Learn about:

• a new Hosted Transcription Service available to students with disabilities
• using speech recognition to transcribe classes
• how accessible, synchronized multimedia transcripts support universally designed learning
• technology innovations to improve SR transcription and captioning systems