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Can a voice input system provide a transcript of a class for a person with a learning disability? Can a voice input system caption things for a person who is deaf?

April 26, 2017caption class disability input learning person system transcript Voice

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Can a voice input system provide a transcript of a class for a person with a learning disability? Can a voice input system caption things for a person who is deaf?

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People are experimenting with both ideas. Voice input systems are speaker-dependent (require the speaker to go through the training period on the computer), are usually only 95-98% accurate, and require slightly slower speech, therefore, it is not currently advisable to attach a microphone to a speaker to try to produce a transcript or carry on a conversation. In addition, since punctuation must be dictated, if attempted, the resulting transcript ends up as one long run-on sentence!