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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=703543822-05042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I think the service Laurie was probably referring to was
CaptionSync, by a company called AutomaticSync: </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.automaticsync.com/">http://www.automaticsync.com/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=703543822-05042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>They're not able to create transcripts (at least not
automatically), but if you have a transcript, you can upload that along with the
multimedia file and they'll automatically time sync the transcript to the video,
and send you caption files as an email attachment. This process actually takes
only minutes, not hours - it's pretty impressive, and pretty accurate from my
experience. They're using speech recognition to identify *when* something is
being said, as long as they already know *what* is being said.
Unfortunately speech recognition isn't yet accurate enough to reliably determine
*what* is being said, so I'm reasonably sure there is no automatic transcription
service yet. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=703543822-05042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Terry</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=703543822-05042007><FONT size=2>Terry
Thompson<BR>Technology Specialist, DO-IT<BR>University of
Washington<BR>tft@u.washington.edu<BR>206/221-4168<BR><A
href="http://www.washington.edu/doit">http://www.washington.edu/doit</A></FONT>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> athen-bounces@athenpro.org
[mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Howard
Kramer<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 05, 2007 3:29 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
athen@athenpro.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Athen] Speech Rec for Mac &
Scribing/Captioning services<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Two questions – I’ve heard there
is a speech recognition program (similar to Nat Speak) for the MAC. Does
anyone know the name and how well it works? Is it part of the MAC operating
system?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Second question – Laurie Harrison
mentioned a service that will caption or create transcripts. You can e-mail
digital audio or multimedia files to them and they can process them within
hours, according to Laurie. I thought it was called accuscribe but I could be
wrong on that. ( I looked it up on the Web and I found a court transcribing
service). If anyone either has Laurie’s contact info or knows which service
she is talking about, it would be much
appreciated.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
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