Some good stuff in there!
But I am concerned about the suggestions around automated speech
recognition (ASR) from NDCS and other deaf charities.
I can't get these ASR systems to Actually Work and neither can other
deaf people I ask... Getting the sound from video-system to speech
recognition software seems to require the user to blast the audio on
loudspeakers and use a 2nd device to pick that up acoustically. Which is
plain rude/antisocial, unhelpful to those of us with direct hearing aid
audio connections (and no loudspeakers in the house) and has privacy
implications for some contexts.
Otter is often touted as good for recognition, but in practice it needs
about £200 a year of premium subscriptions and hosting permissions in
the video-con system to be able to integrate internally and I am not
sure it'd integrate with some of the systems unis use.
I'd like to see these charities showing a step by step how-to, cos
otherwise I don't think they've used this stuff in the wild. They've
tested it under Some Other conditions and not thought this through.
If anyone here has got any of these ASR systems to actually work without
loudspeakering I'd be very interested to hear it.
I am also worried that an attitude of ASR works, use that will be common
when the accuracy at best still isn't good enough for deaf people. It
needs to be about 96% accurate to not dangerously mix up is/isn't,
does/doesn't and in my case yes/no (I can't reliably parse the
difference in f2f speech nevermind video).
Sorry to be a cynic, I'm tired of this video world and really wish we
were more like New Zealand!
Natalya
On 18/06/2020 10:01, Bryan Coleman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I thought you might find this useful. It has also been circulated on the
> NADP list:
>
> https://www.ndcs.org.uk/blog/remote-learning-in-higher-education-for-deaf-students/
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Bryan
>
> Bryan Coleman
>
> Head of Disability & Dyslexia Support Service
>
> Student Support Services
>
> University of Sheffield
>
> www.sheffield.ac.uk/disability <http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/disability>
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