Classroom lectures have been an obstacle for those who are hearing impaired. Although, recent strides in online multimedia have offered many benefits for learning and teaching. Whether it's face-to-face learning or e-learning, automatic speech recognition can improve the quality of learning through synchronized and captioned multimedia. Specifically, this approach can provide automatic captioning of speech for hearing impaired learners, or for any learner when speech is not available.
Many systems have been developed to record classroom lectures. Many universities have begun providing "course casting," an educational version of podcasting, which allows downloading of lectures onto students' iPods or MP3 players. Automatic Speech Recognition has the potential to provide automatically segmented verbatim captioning for both live and recorded speech for deaf and hard of hearing students. It can also assist students who have difficulties taking notes while trying to lip read the teachers' lectures.
Learning should not exclude anyone, no matter what their disability. Making the educational environment a user friendly experience will ensure that teachers are reaching all their students and creating well rounded and highly qualified individuals.
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I just listened to Julie's response to this week's discussion question and I am still in awe of what technology has enabled us to do. Yes, we have come a very long way. And you are correct, there are very few, if any, boundaries that cannot be overcome by technology. No longer is the genius locked up in a physical body that cannot function simply left to wither and die. We are all really and truly equal.
Maryann
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