IBM Viascribe

Product Description: 

IBM ViaScribe is captioning software for digital audio and video that creates a written transcript and audio recording, as well as automatically captions live audio content as it occurs. It can be used in classrooms, business meetings, and other situations in which presentations are made. The speaker spends approximately an hour creating a voice profile that helps the program learn his or her particular speech patterns, and during the presentation, the speaker speaks into a wireless microphone that transmits the audio to the program's speech recognition software.

Main Features: 

• Captions are generated in real time, presented on a screen and saved for later use.
• The program digitizes the speech, producing both transcription and an audio recording.
• The audience can obtain a raw, unedited transcript immediately following the presentation. Speakers can then edit the transcript to correct recognition errors or provide additional information, and post the notes on the Web in various accessible formats, including searchable transcripts, synchronous multimedia, and digital audio. This helps enable greater access for those who are deaf, hard of hearing or who have mobility or learning disabilities.
• The software allows speakers to talk naturally, without interjecting punctuation marks such as "period" or "comma."
• When a speaker pauses, the program skips to a new line, making the screen display and resulting transcript more readable.
• The editing system provides the option to have speech recognition errors written out phonetically to aid in comprehension. Audio, captions, and visual information are automatically synchronized to create accessible learning materials.

More Information: 

This product is discontinued by the manufacturer, but it may still be available for purchase from third party vendors. Try searching the product by name on the internet. Be careful as the manufacturer may no longer support it - or support it for long.