<div dir="auto">NJ et al,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My thoughts. FWIW</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Wink Harner </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 2:13 PM Normajean.Brand <<a href="mailto:normajean.brand@hccs.edu">normajean.brand@hccs.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TYIA for any insights.<u></u><u></u></p>
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