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>> Hey, it's Susan
Dellahanty [assumed spelling]

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with college dessert, creating
accessible online courses,

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with a quick video

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to demonstrate a cool free
tool called Web Speech.

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It's an API designed by Google.

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And anybody who has a chrome
browser can actually use it

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to actually dictate
into the browser

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and it will type everything
that you say directly into text.

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Now, why would you
want to use this?

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Well, we are creating
accessible courses,

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so one of the reasons
you would want to do it

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for your course would
be perhaps if you need

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to create some lectures that you
have that you already recorded

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in audio files, perhaps on
a recording device and you'd

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like to easily transcribe
them into text files

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that you could upload
to your website.

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So, students that are visually
disabled could download those

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text files and access
them very easily

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at their leisure
with a screen reader.

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Text files are much smaller
than audio files or video files.

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So, this makes it easier to
send lecture information online

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and through emails.

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And it also takes up a lot
less storage on your computer.

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Those were a couple
of the other reasons.

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In addition, you might
want to actually --

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let's say you have a
podcast on your website,

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it's not a bad idea
and in particular

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for accessible reasons,
we want to provide

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as many alternative
media methods that we can

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for the students to
access the information.

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And in some cases creating
a transcript is going

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to be required.

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So, let's see, how
do we use this tool.

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Well, very simply you do need
to use the chrome browser.

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It can be on their PC
or MAC, doesn't matter.

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But you will need to actually
open up the browser and type

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in this search right up here.

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It has to be exactly this
URL that I've indicated.

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I've included it on our
course as a link as well,

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so you can easily access that.

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I'd recommend bookmarking that.

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And all you need to do,
once you're in here,

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is if you are going to be
playing a file from a recorder,

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you would need to start that
or you can just start talking

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if you know what
you're going to say.

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And then you simply click on
this little microphone here

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and when it turns red it's going
to start recording as you speak.

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And you can do it for
as long as you like.

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It's really quite accurate

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and can record quite
a bit of information.

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So, here it is.

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It's actually going to
record everything that I say

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from this point on
until I re-click

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that microphone button again.

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And then it will stop.

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And at that point it will
allow me to copy and paste all

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that text right here in your
screen and also allow me

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to create an email where it can
paste that text directly into it

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and that will allow me to maybe
do some last minute checks

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for typos and that kind of thing

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or add any additional
information I'd

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like to add at that time.

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Now, one of the things that I
found it's extremely accurate,

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considering how quickly
I'm speaking,

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and I think that I would
probably guestimate it's maybe

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about 95 to 98% accurate
at this time.

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Now, the tool I believe
is free at this time.

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I don't know how long
that's going to last.

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But take advantage
of it while you can.

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Now, there are a lot of programs
out there that cost money

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that do exactly the same thing.

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But being as simple as
this is to use and free,

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I certainly would take advantage
of this if you need anything,

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like transcription
done at this time.

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Now, I'm going to go ahead
and stop the recorder.

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And as you can see it's
highlighted the text for me

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and I can copy and paste that
text right now and if you are

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on a MAC or a PC it's
going to be different,

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but for my MAC I'm going
to say, "Control C."

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It's going to copy all
that text right there.

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And then I can click on the
create the email button.

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Puts that right there
and it's going to default

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to my personal email account,
which is the one that comes

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up if it's going to
a default account.

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And I'm going to just go ahead
and go into my text box and type

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in the information I just spoke.

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And as you can see, it's
pretty darn accurate.

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One thing it didn't
do is add periods.

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But if you speak and you say
the word period occasionally

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when you want to end a sentence
it will actually put a period

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in there for you.

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So, as you can see this
is a pretty darn easy way

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to transcribe some of your
lecture content or even if you'd

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like to send out
instructions in an email

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without having to type it up.

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Hopefully that's helpful for you

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and have fun trying
it out on your own.