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FEMALE: Hey everyone, it's Suzanne
Delahanty from 

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Crafton Hills college Disabled Students
Programs and Services.

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I am going to do a quick
video on a fantastic

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tool for doing what's
called live captioning.

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Now, what that is is if you
are actually giving 

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a presentation or a class
discussion or meeting

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or actually meeting with
colleagues online via a Zoom

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meeting or some other thing
like Skype or Face Time.

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If you have a deaf student, you must have
live captioning enabled.

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And live captioning is not free with Zoom.

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It does cost money to
actually have that feature.

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Zoom will actually caption your videos
for you after you've saved them

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and recorded them, but that does take
about an hour's delay sometimes.

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So, in order to be
accessible to our Hard of

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Hearing and deaf students,
we need some way

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to provide actual
synchronized captions for

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videos that are produced on
that in real time.

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So I have found a free tool called Web

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Captioner and then simply a website that

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you go to the main page right here,

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I will show you what home looks like.

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And there it is.

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And it is free captioning right in
your browser costs nothing.

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You don't even have to setup
an account to do it.

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But if you do set up an account,
you get some added features.

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So it's very, very helpful.

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It's a non-profit.

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A lots of people use it like churches

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and organizations who need
accessible live content.

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So it is a pretty cool product.

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I've used it quite a bit now
and it is very accurate.

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So one thing you use this
for is if you're doing

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a presentation or meeting
with your students

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and you for sure know there
is somebody who needs

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some sort of live captioning
as their accommodation.

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This is one way that you could
very on-the-fly develop this.

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So, how do we use this?

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So what we're going to do is you simply

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just hit Start Captioning.

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And right here

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you just hit Start Captioning again.

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And it is going to be
listening for my voice.

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It will even tell you
if you're speaking too

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quietly or too loudly,
which is a great feature.

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It will take punctuation, periods,

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commas and so forth.

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And it will very

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intelligently sort out
your sentences period.

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I have found it extremely accurate

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for instant captioning as well.

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You can create a caption
file by using this tool.

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And it is a great speech
to text tool as well.

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So I've had several colleagues
at Crafton test this out.

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One is in a very scientific,
high dense type of vocabulary

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class, and they have found
it extremely accurate.

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So I am very happy to report that. 

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I'm going to go ahead and stop
the captioning.

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And so when you're done with that,
it will ask you for a donation.

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And I think I'm going to donate to them

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cuz I think it's so fantastic.

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And you can say Save to File and it will

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download your entire file down in
your web browser.

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And if you can see, I'm going to

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say, show in my finder and it's going

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to show my web caption file,
it's going to call it

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web caption by the date. 

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And I will just actually open it
from here, so you

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can see exactly what it looks like.

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So you can go in and edit
this, copy this into

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a word processor, whatever
you'd like to do.

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So it is a very accurate
and functional tool.

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So if you'd like to open
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there's all sorts of cool
things you could do.

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What I love about it is it
will censor profane language.

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So that's very good for education.

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It'll have a sensitivity meter
for your voice.

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It will allow you to use large navigation

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buttons and it will stop
or add breaks, if you

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actually don't speak for
more than a certain

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amount of seconds that
you can dictate in here.

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So another thing that you can do is
go in and change the appearance.

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And one of the coolest things is
that not only does it have a lot

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of font choices, as you can see in
here, there is a font called OpenDyslexic,

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which has been proven to
be very friendly for students who

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have dyslexia.

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We can change the text
color, the background color.

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And here, you can just select
different colors for

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whatever need you might
have, you change the text size,

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spacing and you can even
control the capitalization

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of the words and make them all uppercase.

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And you can also change
the alignment of the captions

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as well as the background
color, the opacity

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of the background, you'd
like transparency for

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your course, if you're
doing presentation.

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So in a way, it could be sort of like
your closed captions live, and you

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can make a little box for them at
the bottom of the screen, if you'd like.

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And there's lots of other
features in here.

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You can also change language

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and you can also sync it to your Dropbox.

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So there's a lot of cool features
in here, word replacements

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if there's lots of errors that
come up or technical terms,

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you can have it replace it with
something that's very specific.

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So there are some experiments,
experimental features,

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we won't go into that,
but I think you will find like me,

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cuz this is a very useful
tool for educators

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as well as students who use the
dyslexic font.

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Now, if I'm all done and I would
like to clear my screen, I can do

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so right here, and now you're starting
with a clean slate again.

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So hopefully you will find
this a useful tool as I have

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as well as a lot of my
hearing-impaired students.

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They put this up on the screen

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if someone has not been able to
caption or whatever reason during a 

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lecture, and it will capture the audio
for them right in the browser.

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So I wanna remind you though, that is our

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responsibility as instructors
to produce this

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for the student who is
not the students who

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is Hard of Hearing
or deafs responsibility.

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That's a federal law, a civil right.

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And we need to be cognizant of that.

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But I think you'll find
that this is a very, very

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helpful and accessible tool.

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Thank you for listening,
you have a great day.