WEBVTT 00:00:00.459 --> 00:00:02.794 FEMALE: Hey everyone, it's Suzanne Delahanty from 00:00:03.045 --> 00:00:06.590 Crafton Hills college Disabled Students Programs and Services. 00:00:07.132 --> 00:00:10.344 I am going to do a quick video on a fantastic 00:00:10.427 --> 00:00:13.680 tool for doing what's called live captioning. 00:00:14.181 --> 00:00:17.601 Now, what that is is if you are actually giving 00:00:17.726 --> 00:00:21.396 a presentation or a class discussion or meeting 00:00:22.147 --> 00:00:26.318 or actually meeting with colleagues online via a Zoom 00:00:26.401 --> 00:00:30.822 meeting or some other thing like Skype or Face Time. 00:00:31.323 --> 00:00:36.453 If you have a deaf student, you must have live captioning enabled. 00:00:36.620 --> 00:00:40.332 And live captioning is not free with Zoom. 00:00:40.707 --> 00:00:43.210 It does cost money to actually have that feature. 00:00:44.294 --> 00:00:49.758 Zoom will actually caption your videos for you after you've saved them 00:00:49.842 --> 00:00:54.304 and recorded them, but that does take about an hour's delay sometimes. 00:00:54.638 --> 00:00:58.267 So, in order to be accessible to our Hard of 00:00:58.392 --> 00:01:00.727 Hearing and deaf students, we need some way 00:01:00.811 --> 00:01:04.273 to provide actual synchronized captions for 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.276 videos that are produced on that in real time. 00:01:07.860 --> 00:01:10.863 So I have found a free tool called Web 00:01:11.029 --> 00:01:14.741 Captioner and then simply a website that 00:01:14.908 --> 00:01:17.995 you go to the main page right here, 00:01:18.495 --> 00:01:21.081 I will show you what home looks like. 00:01:21.582 --> 00:01:22.457 And there it is. 00:01:22.666 --> 00:01:26.545 And it is free captioning right in your browser costs nothing. 00:01:26.962 --> 00:01:29.047 You don't even have to setup an account to do it. 00:01:29.256 --> 00:01:32.634 But if you do set up an account, you get some added features. 00:01:32.718 --> 00:01:34.178 So it's very, very helpful. 00:01:34.553 --> 00:01:35.637 It's a non-profit. 00:01:36.138 --> 00:01:38.974 A lots of people use it like churches 00:01:39.099 --> 00:01:44.188 and organizations who need accessible live content. 00:01:44.730 --> 00:01:48.066 So it is a pretty cool product. 00:01:48.233 --> 00:01:52.070 I've used it quite a bit now and it is very accurate. 00:01:52.487 --> 00:01:56.074 So one thing you use this for is if you're doing 00:01:56.158 --> 00:02:00.245 a presentation or meeting with your students 00:02:00.370 --> 00:02:03.999 and you for sure know there is somebody who needs 00:02:04.499 --> 00:02:08.253 some sort of live captioning as their accommodation. 00:02:08.670 --> 00:02:12.966 This is one way that you could very on-the-fly develop this. 00:02:13.467 --> 00:02:15.302 So, how do we use this? 00:02:15.802 --> 00:02:17.387 So what we're going to do is you simply 00:02:17.471 --> 00:02:19.223 just hit Start Captioning. 00:02:22.893 --> 00:02:24.269 And right here 00:02:24.561 --> 00:02:26.563 you just hit Start Captioning again. 00:02:27.523 --> 00:02:31.026 And it is going to be listening for my voice. 00:02:31.276 --> 00:02:33.612 It will even tell you if you're speaking too 00:02:33.862 --> 00:02:37.032 quietly or too loudly, which is a great feature. 00:02:38.033 --> 00:02:41.161 It will take punctuation, periods, 00:02:41.328 --> 00:02:44.373 commas and so forth. 00:02:45.707 --> 00:02:46.959 And it will very 00:02:47.084 --> 00:02:51.296 intelligently sort out your sentences period. 00:02:51.421 --> 00:02:54.174 I have found it extremely accurate 00:02:54.967 --> 00:02:57.261 for instant captioning as well. 00:02:58.053 --> 00:03:01.557 You can create a caption file by using this tool. 00:03:02.432 --> 00:03:05.477 And it is a great speech to text tool as well. 00:03:06.895 --> 00:03:11.441 So I've had several colleagues at Crafton test this out. 00:03:11.942 --> 00:03:17.698 One is in a very scientific, high dense type of vocabulary 00:03:18.031 --> 00:03:21.577 class, and they have found it extremely accurate. 00:03:21.785 --> 00:03:24.913 So I am very happy to report that. 00:03:25.664 --> 00:03:27.833 I'm going to go ahead and stop the captioning. 00:03:28.625 --> 00:03:32.087 And so when you're done with that, it will ask you for a donation. 00:03:32.838 --> 00:03:35.215 And I think I'm going to donate to them 00:03:35.424 --> 00:03:37.009 cuz I think it's so fantastic. 00:03:37.593 --> 00:03:39.636 And you can say Save to File and it will 00:03:39.720 --> 00:03:44.224 download your entire file down in your web browser. 00:03:45.726 --> 00:03:47.644 And if you can see, I'm going to 00:03:47.728 --> 00:03:51.523 say, show in my finder and it's going 00:03:51.648 --> 00:03:54.318 to show my web caption file, it's going to call it 00:03:54.401 --> 00:03:56.945 web caption by the date. 00:03:57.571 --> 00:04:02.659 And I will just actually open it from here, so you 00:04:02.784 --> 00:04:04.369 can see exactly what it looks like. 00:04:04.494 --> 00:04:07.789 So you can go in and edit this, copy this into 00:04:07.873 --> 00:04:10.709 a word processor, whatever you'd like to do. 00:04:11.084 --> 00:04:15.672 So it is a very accurate and functional tool. 00:04:16.006 --> 00:04:19.009 So if you'd like to open an account, 00:04:19.551 --> 00:04:21.845 there's all sorts of cool things you could do. 00:04:22.012 --> 00:04:25.849 What I love about it is it will censor profane language. 00:04:25.933 --> 00:04:27.726 So that's very good for education. 00:04:28.185 --> 00:04:32.523 It'll have a sensitivity meter for your voice. 00:04:32.814 --> 00:04:35.859 It will allow you to use large navigation 00:04:35.984 --> 00:04:41.448 buttons and it will stop or add breaks, if you 00:04:41.532 --> 00:04:44.660 actually don't speak for more than a certain 00:04:44.743 --> 00:04:47.287 amount of seconds that you can dictate in here. 00:04:48.497 --> 00:04:55.379 So another thing that you can do is go in and change the appearance. 00:04:55.754 --> 00:04:58.799 And one of the coolest things is that not only does it have a lot 00:04:58.882 --> 00:05:04.179 of font choices, as you can see in here, there is a font called OpenDyslexic, 00:05:04.388 --> 00:05:09.476 which has been proven to be very friendly for students who 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:10.561 have dyslexia. 00:05:11.061 --> 00:05:14.231 We can change the text color, the background color. 00:05:14.690 --> 00:05:19.361 And here, you can just select different colors for 00:05:19.528 --> 00:05:23.657 whatever need you might have, you change the text size, 00:05:24.616 --> 00:05:28.036 spacing and you can even control the capitalization 00:05:28.370 --> 00:05:30.789 of the words and make them all uppercase. 00:05:31.540 --> 00:05:35.294 And you can also change the alignment of the captions 00:05:35.961 --> 00:05:38.714 as well as the background color, the opacity 00:05:38.797 --> 00:05:42.176 of the background, you'd like transparency for 00:05:42.259 --> 00:05:45.596 your course, if you're doing presentation. 00:05:46.013 --> 00:05:50.809 So in a way, it could be sort of like your closed captions live, and you 00:05:50.893 --> 00:05:54.938 can make a little box for them at the bottom of the screen, if you'd like. 00:05:55.564 --> 00:05:58.025 And there's lots of other features in here. 00:05:58.609 --> 00:06:01.403 You can also change language 00:06:02.112 --> 00:06:05.616 and you can also sync it to your Dropbox. 00:06:05.824 --> 00:06:09.620 So there's a lot of cool features in here, word replacements 00:06:09.703 --> 00:06:13.207 if there's lots of errors that come up or technical terms, 00:06:13.540 --> 00:06:17.002 you can have it replace it with something that's very specific. 00:06:17.586 --> 00:06:21.798 So there are some experiments, experimental features, 00:06:21.924 --> 00:06:26.386 we won't go into that, but I think you will find like me, 00:06:26.803 --> 00:06:29.431 cuz this is a very useful tool for educators 00:06:29.681 --> 00:06:33.018 as well as students who use the dyslexic font. 00:06:33.393 --> 00:06:38.190 Now, if I'm all done and I would like to clear my screen, I can do 00:06:38.273 --> 00:06:42.236 so right here, and now you're starting with a clean slate again. 00:06:42.945 --> 00:06:46.782 So hopefully you will find this a useful tool as I have 00:06:47.157 --> 00:06:49.993 as well as a lot of my hearing-impaired students. 00:06:50.327 --> 00:06:52.454 They put this up on the screen 00:06:52.538 --> 00:06:55.958 if someone has not been able to caption or whatever reason during a 00:06:56.041 --> 00:07:01.713 lecture, and it will capture the audio for them right in the browser. 00:07:02.256 --> 00:07:04.758 So I wanna remind you though, that is our 00:07:04.842 --> 00:07:07.928 responsibility as instructors to produce this 00:07:08.011 --> 00:07:10.931 for the student who is not the students who 00:07:11.014 --> 00:07:13.267 is Hard of Hearing or deafs responsibility. 00:07:13.433 --> 00:07:15.519 That's a federal law, a civil right. 00:07:15.811 --> 00:07:17.646 And we need to be cognizant of that. 00:07:18.105 --> 00:07:21.483 But I think you'll find that this is a very, very 00:07:21.692 --> 00:07:23.569 helpful and accessible tool. 00:07:23.986 --> 00:07:25.821 Thank you for listening, you have a great day.