Software Improves Captioning for Those with Hearing Deficits
From: University of Michigan News - 10/17/2017
By: Laurel Thomas

Researchers at the University of Michigan say they have developed Scribe, a
program that makes getting real-time captions on demand possible by
simultaneously engaging multiple, non-expert captionists. Scribe takes
content from several less-skilled translators and intelligently forms
captions in less than four seconds, according to an article in the current
issue of Communications of the ACM. Deaf and hard-of-hearing students that
currently require assistance must notify an office dedicated to helping them,
which then hires a translator at an hourly rate. The translator often is not
someone with subject-matter expertise, but with the new Scribe system,
several peers or work-study students can translate the same material more
accurately and for less money. On average, people can only type about 10
percent to 20 percent of what is being said, but when the notes of many
captionists are combined, the full message becomes more complete, says
University of Michigan professor Walter Lasecki.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/25174-software-improves-captioning-for-those-with-hearing-deficits

Links:
Scribe: Deep Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence to Caption Speech in Real Time
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/9/220418-scribe/abstract#body-9

Walter Lasecki
https://www.si.umich.edu/people/walter-lasecki