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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Pro",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Hey Wink,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Pro",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Pro",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Maybe they can allay my skepticism but I’m not banking on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Pro",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">NJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>foreigntype@gmail.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 11, 2022 4:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] AVA?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My thoughts. FWIW<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wink Harner <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 2:13 PM Normajean.Brand <<a href="mailto:normajean.brand@hccs.edu">normajean.brand@hccs.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Friends,<br>
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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.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="https://www.ava.me" target="_blank">https://www.ava.me</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">TYIA for any insights.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">NJ<o:p></o:p></p>
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