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From: Carson, Gina
Date: Fri, Nov 04 2011 4:09PM
Subject: Captioning solution... Docsoft:AV appliance
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PCCC's media man got on my accessibility wagon and found this device which he submitted in his capital budget request to caption our school's Echo360 videos and everything & anything else. It looks like a great tool to suggest to make ALL your video and audio content accessible.

The Docsoft:AV appliance is a powerful software and hardware solution designed to audio mine (capture) the spoken content in digital audio and video (AV) files. This appliance can be used to automatically generate text transcripts and closed captioning formats and can be configured to output virtually any text based format. http://www.docsoft.com/Products/AV/


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From: Terzian, Sharon
Date: Fri, Nov 04 2011 4:15PM
Subject: Re: Captioning solution... Docsoft:AV appliance
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How much is it? I've been using MAGpie pretty successfully, and that's free

sharon terzian
webmistress/sherlock center @ rhode island college
adjunct professor, computer science, school of management, rhode island college

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From: Randy Pope
Date: Fri, Nov 04 2011 5:03PM
Subject: Re: Captioning solution... Docsoft:AV appliance
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Hi Sharon,

Can the caption be read using a braille disaply?

With Warm Regards,
Randy Pope

From: Terzian, Sharon
Date: Sat, Nov 05 2011 3:54AM
Subject: Re: Captioning solution... Docsoft:AV appliance
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Hi Randy, Not sure, just started using it (had to close caption a video I did when it got used at a conference)

Info is here:

http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/web_multimedia/tools-guidelines/magpie

there is not a ton of documentation on it, but there is a lot of 'chatter' on their listserv and some other places around the web, if you are interested, I can post your question on the listserv


sharon terzian
webmistress/sherlock center @ rhode island college adjunct professor,
computer science, school of management, rhode island college
http://www.sherlockcenter.org
http://www.dubowitzsyndrome.net

From: Sean Keegan
Date: Sat, Nov 05 2011 2:36PM
Subject: Re: Captioning solution... Docsoft:AV appliance
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> 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