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Developing Assistive Technology to Enhance Learning for all Students

Developing Assistive Technology to Enhance Learning for all Students
Developing Assistive Technology to Enhance Learning for all Students
Although manual captioning can increase the accessibility of multimedia for deaf students it is rarely provided in educational contexts in the UK due to the cost and shortage of highly skilled and trained stenographers. Speech recognition has the potential to reduce the cost and increase the availability of captioning if it could satisfy accuracy and readability requirements. This paper discusses how the development of a multimedia annotation application Synote that uses captioned multimedia can enhance learning for all students and how finding ways to improve the accuracy and readability of automatic captioning can encourage its widespread adoption to greatly benefit disabled students.
978-1-60750-042-1
510-514
IOS Press
Wald, Mike
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Wald, Mike
90577cfd-35ae-4e4a-9422-5acffecd89d5

Wald, Mike (2009) Developing Assistive Technology to Enhance Learning for all Students. In, Assistive Technology from Adapted Equipment to Inclusive Environments - AAATE 2009. IOS Press, pp. 510-514.

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Although manual captioning can increase the accessibility of multimedia for deaf students it is rarely provided in educational contexts in the UK due to the cost and shortage of highly skilled and trained stenographers. Speech recognition has the potential to reduce the cost and increase the availability of captioning if it could satisfy accuracy and readability requirements. This paper discusses how the development of a multimedia annotation application Synote that uses captioned multimedia can enhance learning for all students and how finding ways to improve the accuracy and readability of automatic captioning can encourage its widespread adoption to greatly benefit disabled students.

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Published date: 2009
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 268217
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268217
ISBN: 978-1-60750-042-1
PURE UUID: 72419975-e9db-41bd-9692-e13b380a5969

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Date deposited: 15 Nov 2009 12:23
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 09:06

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Author: Mike Wald

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