Enhancing the Usability of Real-Time Speech Recognition Captioning Through Personalised Displays and Real-Time Multiple Speaker Editing and Annotation

Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning

Khoja

et al. 2009

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This paper discusses the development of a collaborative hypertext application named Synote. Multimedia has become technically easier to create, but while the WHOLE of a media resource can be easily bookmarked, searched, linked to and tagged, it is still difficult to find or associate notes or other resources with a certain PART of a resource. Synote addresses the important and pervasive user need of making multimedia Web resources easier to access, search, manage and exploit for learners teachers and other users through developing an application that supports the creation of synchronised notes, bookmarks, tags, links, images and text captions. Synote has been developed based on requirements for such a Web based e-learning environment, identified by various studies. The performance, efficiency and effectiveness of Synote was evaluated by using it with students and teachers for a number of undergraduate courses and this has shown that they like using Synote and want more recordings and lectures in this format to be made available to them.

Section: Synote Requirement Analysis 31 Identification Of User Requimentioning

confidence: 99%

Synote

Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for Distance Learning

Khoja

et al. 2009

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“…Panopto 1 , Echo360 2 , Tegrity 3 , Camtasia 4 ) can be expensive and do not easily facilitate educational student interactions. Synote 5 overcomes the problem that while users can easily bookmark, search, link to, or tag the WHOLE of a recording available on the web they cannot easily find, or associate their notes or resources with, PART of that recording [1]. As an analogy, users would clearly find a text book difficult to use if it had no contents page, index or page numbers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Synote: Important Enhancements to Learning with Recorded Lectures

2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

2012

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Abstract-This paper explains three new important enhancements to Synote, the freely available, award winning, open source, web based application that makes web hosted recordings easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and other users. Synote uniquely achieves this through the creation of synchronized notes, bookmarks, tags, links, images and text captions, enabling users to easily find, or associate their notes or resources with, any part of a recording available on the web. Students surveyed would like to be able to access all their lectures through Synote. The facility to convert and import narrated PowerPoint PPTX files means that teachers can capture their lectures without requiring institution-wide expensive lecture capture systems. Crowdsourcing correction of speech recognition errors allows for sustainable captioning of the lecture while the development of an integrated mobile speech recognition application enables synchronized live verbal contributions from the class to also be captured through captions.

“…Selecting a Synmark, transcript word or Slide/Image moves the recording to the corresponding synchronised time. [5]. The integration of the speaker independent IBM Hosted Transcription System with Synote has simplified the process of transcription giving word error rates of between 15% -30% for UK speakers using headset microphones.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Important New Enhancements to Inclusive Learning Using Recorded Lectures

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2012

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Abstract. This paper explains three new important enhancements to Synote, the freely available, award winning, open source, web based application that makes web hosted recordings easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and other users. The facility to convert and import narrated PowerPoint PPTX files means that teachers can capture and caption their lectures without requiring institution-wide expensive lecture capture or captioning systems. Crowdsourcing correction of speech recognition errors allows for sustainable captioning of any originally uncaptioned lecture while the development of an integrated mobile speech recognition application enables synchronized live verbal contributions from the class to also be captured through captions.