Panopto's automatic captioning isn't terribly accurate. I came across
two groups at my last employer who had been told it was "amazing". We
asked them to actually test it on real content and they came back to us
with an "errr, yeah... not great".
Panopto will caption the content properly for between $2 and $4 per
audio minute depending on how quickly you want it but you have to buy
bulk loads of minutes in advance and it's complicated to organise.
Speech to text software levels of accuracy is not good enough for deaf
students. Even Youtube which is the best I've seen isn't good enough -
deaf people call those "craptions". It isn't just accuracy of words, it
is capitalisation and puntuation and the timing which all affect
'readability'. One of the worst things about Craptions is that they come
one word at a time and even very good ones are inaccurate in confusing
ways which can completely change the meaning.
There needs to be some degree of human tidying up to make even the best
automated captions reliable enough for real deaf user use.
I am a strong believer that captions must be proper to be any use to
deaf students, anything else isn't good enough. Deaf organisations
consistently agree.
Natalya
On 06/12/2017 15:34, John Conway wrote:
> We don't have lecture capture but when it was proposed staff were promised it would be a video of the slides and audio of their talk. When we asked the provider, Panopto, about captioning their response about accuracy was not encouraging but maybe its got better?
>
> what woudl people think about recording via AudioNoteTaker for hearing students, followed by some form of speech to text software for deaf students??
>
> with regards
> John
>
>
>
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> From: Discussion of accessibility and accessible resource provision in libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Natalya D [[log in to unmask]]
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> Subject: Re: Flipped learning - lecture capture accessibility issues
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> I would also be interested in the answers to this (if any are off list)
> as I am doing some work on "video accessibility for deaf students in HE"
> at the moment which I hope to be able to take to an NADP conference at
> some point.
>
> Natalya
>
> On 06/12/2017 08:54, BRAILLE wrote:
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> I am interested to find out what your institution provides in regards to
>> accessibility measures for flipped learning/lecture capture. I would
>> have the following questions:
>>
>> 1.Do you produce written transcripts or is your software producing
>> captions automatically?
>>
>> 2.Do lecturers make sure that their face is visible, so that lip-readers
>> can follow the audio of a video?
>>
>> 3.Do you have a best-practice framework for both (flipped
>> learning/lecture capture) and how widely is it used at your university?
>>
>> 4.Have you faced any barriers in making these technologies accessible
>> and if yes, how did you overcome them?
>>
>> Any input, guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Martina Webber
>>
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