[Athen] AVA?

[Normajean.Brand]

Hey Wink,
Thanks! I too am skeptical of those advertising 99%. In one corner of their pages, they say 99% and on another 95%, and another it’s 90%, But their biggest ‘shout out’ is 99%. 90% is no better or worse than what I already have.

Maybe they can allay my skepticism but I’m not banking on it.

NJ

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NJ et al,

Find your original RFPs from the other company/ies you’ve done outside contracts for captioning & send an identical one to AVA for a quote. Include a sample for captioning. Compare with the quality, turnaround, accuracy, steps needed at your end for any remediation, cost per minute, etc.

I’m personally skeptical of anyone or any company that advertises 99% accuracy with AI software. I’d like to have the company prove they can do it without risking our students’ expected access. Comparing apples to apples.

My thoughts. FWIW

Wink Harner

On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 2:13 PM Normajean.Brand <normajean.brand at hccs.edu<mailto:normajean.brand at hccs.edu>> wrote:
Friends,

Has anyone had any experience with this product? I heard they were at the AHEAD conf this year, but I couldn’t go so… but our Director was told about it and wants to know more.

I've looked at their website but I’m not convinced it’s any better than what we already have in place. Through Kaltura/Cielo, we can already get YouTube videos captioned pretty quickly, along with any home-grown videos and we also have a staff of CART and ASL we can deploy either online or on campus.

https://www.ava.me
TYIA for any insights.

NJ

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