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Re: Captioning solution... Docsoft:AV appliance

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From: Sean Keegan
Date: Nov 5, 2011 2:36PM

> It looks like a great tool to suggest to make ALL your video and audio
content accessible.

It needs to be mentioned that using the underlying functionality of the
DocSoft:AV appliance is audio mining and creating text information from
audio data. It uses speech recognition as the major component of this
functionality, with all the pros/cons associated with such technology.

That being said, we have implemented the DocSoft:AV appliance as a *part*
of our captioning solution. Rather than relying on the speech recognition
alone, we have developed a customized solution that uses the AV platform to
time-stamp accurate text transcripts. The text transcripts may be created
by the user (in which there is no cost to creating a time-stamp caption
file) or the user can select from a preset list of transcription companies
who create the accurate transcript for a fee. Transcripts created by
transcription companies are then submitted back to the system and the user
receives the caption file within 1-3 business days.

Some additional information about our program can be found at
http://captioning.stanford.edu . So, I would submit that it can be used as
part of a comprehensive solution but is not an independent solution to
"make all your videos accessible."

Take care,
Sean

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Sean Keegan
Associate Director, Assistive Technology
Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University
http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae