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Rodney Michele offered a possible solution to Mairian Corker's situation (deafened adult in inaccessible classroom): > Have you considered using "voice Recognition" software? I believe the right > package on a laptop, or through the use of a tape recorder then > played later for a computer, might be a possibility. Ahhhh, I wish. Voice recognition isn't quite there yet. Most programs require training on a particular speaker's voice pattern, so the instructor would have to set aside 5-10 hours to get recognized. Even so, that leaves out all the other aural info: other students, environmental sounds, etc. It will happen someday, but that day isn't here yet. Even real-time captioning (known by the intitials CART in the US), where a clever human transcribes all auditory info through a stenographic keyboard, thence to a computer to expand the abbreviations, and thence to a TV screen, is only 98% accurate. Are CART transcribers available to you Mairian? Jesse the K -- 43:04N 89:24W Madison WI USA -- <mailto:[log in to unmask]> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%