Design and implementation of the UIMA common analysis system
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Inclusion of deaf students in computer science classes using real-time speech transcription
Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Enhancing accessibility through correction of speech recognition errors
ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing - ASSETS 2007 doctoral consortium
Simultaneous translation of lectures and speeches
Machine Translation
Text Editing for Lecture Speech Archiving on the Web
ICCPOL '09 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages. Language Technology for the Knowledge-based Economy
Achieving acceptable accuracy in a low-cost, assistive note-taking, speech transcription system
Telehealth/AT '08 Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Telehealth/Assistive Technologies
Using speech recognition and intelligent search tools to enhance information accessibility
UAHCI'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: applications and services
Third-party error detection support mechanisms for dictation speech recognition
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Captioning for deaf and hard of hearing people by editing automatic speech recognition in real time
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Accessibility in the workplace and in academic settings has increased dramatically for users with disabilities, driven by greater awareness, legislative mandate, and technological improvements. Gaps, however, remain. For persons who are deaf and hard of hearing in particular, full participation requires complete access to audio materials, both for live settings and for prerecorded audio and visual information. Even for users with adequate hearing, captioned or transcribed materials offer another modality for information access, one that can be particularly useful in certain situations, such as listening in noisy environments, interpreting speakers with strong accents, or searching audio media for specific information. Providing this level of access through fully automated means is currently beyond the state of the art. This paper details a number of key advances in audio access that have occurred over the last five years. We describe the Liberated Learning Project, a consortium of universities worldwide, which is piloting technologies to create real-time access for students who are deaf and hard of hearing, without intermediary assistance. In support of this project, IBM Research has created the ViaScribeTM tool that converts speech recognition output to a viable captioning interface. Additional inventions and incremental improvements to speech recognition for captioning are described, as well as future directions.