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

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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Jul 9, 2013 8:59AM

+1

I would love it so much, if all the videos had transcriptions next to them, and I could skim through the transcription, and jump right to the portion of the video or presentation that I am really interested in.

Olaf


On 9 Jul 2013, at 16:49, Whitney Quesenbery < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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