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Re: Strategies for synchronizing alt-formats with narrated power points?

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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Jul 9, 2013 8:49AM

Microsoft Research used to post invited talks with a three window
synchronized presentation: the video, the slides, a transcript. The current
line in the transcript was highlighted to match the audio/video.

Unfortunately, either what I remember was an isolated event, or they have
changed their interface, as they now have uncaptioned video and a list of
component files to download.

Personally, I loved the ability to skim through a long transcript to find
the section I was interested in and play from there by just hitting enter
with the cursor on the line of text.

Whitney


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Ryan E. Benson < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> I have seen two different systems that do this type of thing. Both products
> output were not accessible, meaning the various controls created were not
> labeled. They ended up making a movie with Camtasia or Adobe Captivate to
> integrate the slides, voice over and captions.
>
> --
> Ryan E. Benson
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:26 AM, McMorland, Gabriel < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
> > Our online courses use a lot of narrated power points, where the slides
> > automatically advance while an audio lecture plays at the same time. We
> > want to provide alternative formats for students who cannot hear the
> audio
> > and for students who can not see the slides.
> > Students need a way to match up their alternative format content with the
> > content they are able to access from the narrated PowerPoint. The lecture
> > content and slide content must still be synchronized.
> >
> > Please tell me strategies you have used in similar scenarios. I have some
> > ideas, but I'm very interested to learn what others have already learned
> > about this.
> > > > > > > >
> > > >



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