WEBVTT 00:00:01.650 --> 00:00:05.670 Welcome to the EZ Universal Design series. I'm 00:00:05.670 --> 00:00:08.730 Suzanne Delahanty. As the alternative media and 00:00:08.730 --> 00:00:11.370 assistive technology specialist, I want to share 00:00:11.370 --> 00:00:14.700 some of my favorite universal design secrets in my 00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:17.550 easy universal design series. I'm going to demo 00:00:17.550 --> 00:00:20.430 some great ways to quickly make your courses more 00:00:20.430 --> 00:00:22.800 accessible and equitable for everyone. 00:00:23.370 --> 00:00:25.890 Periodically, I'll be introducing you all to some 00:00:25.890 --> 00:00:28.830 of the best tools you can easily implement right 00:00:28.830 --> 00:00:29.130 now. 00:00:31.560 --> 00:00:33.770 Today, I'll be sharing a new tool with you, called 00:00:33.780 --> 00:00:37.490 Ava, which allows you to add free live captioning to your Zoom 00:00:37.530 --> 00:00:40.890 meetings for free. How would you like to do that? 00:00:41.460 --> 00:00:44.040 Well, let me show you how easy it is with this 00:00:44.040 --> 00:00:47.220 free live captioning tool. Ava allows you to 00:00:47.220 --> 00:00:50.310 instantly add live streaming captions to any live 00:00:50.310 --> 00:00:52.740 video meeting. And it will also let you save your 00:00:52.740 --> 00:00:56.760 spoken words as a text file when you're done. This 00:00:56.760 --> 00:00:59.850 simple tool helps not only deaf or hard of hearing 00:00:59.850 --> 00:01:04.560 students, but also help students who are ESL, ADHD, 00:01:04.770 --> 00:01:07.800 dyslexic, as well as students with writing or 00:01:07.830 --> 00:01:10.950 mobility issues. When taking notes, it takes less 00:01:10.950 --> 00:01:13.230 than one minute to get up and running and add 00:01:13.230 --> 00:01:16.230 captions to your streaming Zoom videos. Let me 00:01:16.230 --> 00:01:19.230 demonstrate how easy it is to get up and running 00:01:19.230 --> 00:01:23.550 using AVA. So I am actually in a zoom meeting, 00:01:23.550 --> 00:01:25.290 I've already launched it, and I'm going to share 00:01:25.290 --> 00:01:28.740 my screen and show you AVA. I'm going to go 00:01:28.740 --> 00:01:32.160 ahead and click on my desktop and here I am on the 00:01:32.170 --> 00:01:35.390 AVA homepage. It is very, very simple to get to. 00:01:35.670 --> 00:01:41.130 It is simply AVA.ME ;then you should see all of 00:01:41.130 --> 00:01:43.650 this right here. I'm going to go ahead and 00:01:43.650 --> 00:01:46.560 move my Zoom toolbar. What you see is 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:49.380 basically this green bar on the top and all you 00:01:49.380 --> 00:01:52.380 need to do to actually start using AVA is click 00:01:52.380 --> 00:01:55.890 on the "get started button" or "caption now". I'm 00:01:55.890 --> 00:01:59.430 going to go ahead and log in on my main login page 00:01:59.460 --> 00:02:02.100 here, which I've already logged into. You can log 00:02:02.100 --> 00:02:04.320 in as a guest, or you can create an account with 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:07.130 your school e-mail. It is entirely free either way. 00:02:07.590 --> 00:02:10.470 I'm going to go ahead and start my captions now. 00:02:10.470 --> 00:02:13.590 But as you can see, there is a a toolbar area 00:02:13.590 --> 00:02:17.070 where you can set your visibility. Most people 00:02:17.070 --> 00:02:19.530 like dark mode for visibility, but you can also 00:02:19.530 --> 00:02:22.140 change the font size, which is very, very helpful. 00:02:22.320 --> 00:02:25.080 All of those settings are hiding in here. 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:29.490 I'm going to go ahead and start captions now. And 00:02:29.490 --> 00:02:32.400 what you can see is it will immediately start 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:35.430 captioning for me. I also have a font size which I 00:02:35.430 --> 00:02:39.360 can change on the fly, or actually change languages, 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:43.430 or my input of my audio. That's all very simple, 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:45.840 easy access on the left hand side. And you can collapse 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.140 this as you see fit. As you can see, it is 00:02:49.140 --> 00:02:51.600 following all my words. Now, how do you get the 00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:54.540 captioning on your Zoom window? What you need 00:02:54.540 --> 00:02:57.120 to do is just go to the little button here. As you 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.730 can see, my microphone is on. It is recording me 00:02:59.730 --> 00:03:02.370 automatically. If you go to this window on the 00:03:02.370 --> 00:03:06.000 web and you can actually turn this off if you need 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.460 to have a break or pause. Then you can come 00:03:08.460 --> 00:03:11.130 back here. If you have something you'd like to 00:03:11.130 --> 00:03:14.550 CC caption onto, you can click here {on CC} and it will open 00:03:14.550 --> 00:03:17.160 up a separate window while it's transcribing in 00:03:17.160 --> 00:03:19.570 the background, that you can put in front of your 00:03:19.590 --> 00:03:22.320 Zoom presentation or your whiteboard. So I do need 00:03:22.320 --> 00:03:25.830 to log in here and say "start captioning". What 00:03:25.830 --> 00:03:30.240 it will do is show me captions in a very nice 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:34.200 floating closed-captioning bar. The size of 00:03:34.200 --> 00:03:36.600 this font in the background are set by the 00:03:36.600 --> 00:03:39.180 original settings that you set up in the 00:03:39.570 --> 00:03:42.440 transcription box in the window we just looked at. 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.830 I'm going to go ahead and show you that I can 00:03:46.830 --> 00:03:50.270 resize it so that it matches your screen or your 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:52.800 Zoom window. You can actually add people to the 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:56.700 conversation to join in, and you can pause it as 00:03:56.700 --> 00:04:00.660 well on this closed captioning box. So, this is how it 00:04:00.660 --> 00:04:04.470 works. If I wanted to bring up my 00:04:04.590 --> 00:04:07.290 whiteboard, for instance, or annotate, you can 00:04:07.290 --> 00:04:10.590 also have that at the same time. So, it's a very 00:04:10.590 --> 00:04:14.130 useful tool. What's really cool: when 00:04:14.130 --> 00:04:16.440 you're all done speaking, whether it be an hour or 00:04:16.440 --> 00:04:19.440 three hours, it's completely free and unlimited 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:21.720 for as long as you'd like to speak. It's about 00:04:21.840 --> 00:04:24.300 85% accurate and you can edit it 00:04:24.330 --> 00:04:27.720 with this keyboard tool if you'd like to go in and 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:31.110 type. You can also make corrections on the fly 00:04:31.410 --> 00:04:36.750 by just clicking on this, so you can Hyper focus on 00:04:36.750 --> 00:04:39.150 a word and just typing over it, correcting it 00:04:39.150 --> 00:04:43.140 yourself on the fly. Once you hit the "close" 00:04:43.140 --> 00:04:45.840 button, whether it be here, on the "scribe" window 00:04:46.020 --> 00:04:49.470 or on the captioning window, it automatically asks 00:04:49.470 --> 00:04:53.180 you if you'd like to save the transcript. I'm 00:04:53.190 --> 00:04:55.680 going to say "save transcribe", & it automatically 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:58.230 names it by the date; I'm going to put it on my 00:04:58.230 --> 00:05:01.650 desktop by default. I'm going to save, and I'll 00:05:01.650 --> 00:05:03.450 show you what that looks like. I'm going to go 00:05:03.450 --> 00:05:06.650 ahead and minimize all this. It is still 00:05:06.650 --> 00:05:10.400 working, by the way, as you wait to open your 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:14.030 transcript; but here is the transcript. All 00:05:14.030 --> 00:05:16.250 cleaned up and everything is there. And you 00:05:16.250 --> 00:05:19.850 actually go in there and you can see that there's 00:05:19.850 --> 00:05:22.850 some typos there. So it will hint to you to fix text 00:05:22.850 --> 00:05:24.710 with the red highlights. But it is an excellent 00:05:24.710 --> 00:05:28.910 tool for transcribing things for videos. 00:05:28.910 --> 00:05:31.160 Students can use this as a study tool on their 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:33.320 end too. But, I think every instructor should know 00:05:33.320 --> 00:05:35.840 about this because it's a great tool to get you 00:05:35.840 --> 00:05:39.140 started with captioning for free and very easily. 00:05:39.710 --> 00:05:41.900 I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any 00:05:41.900 --> 00:05:45.110 questions at all, feel free to reach out to me. My 00:05:45.110 --> 00:05:47.990 email will be on the last slide here, and you can 00:05:47.990 --> 00:05:51.140 always call me when our campus is back up and 00:05:51.140 --> 00:05:55.010 running. Thank you. And look for my next video on 00:05:55.010 --> 00:05:58.580 another accessible universal design technique that 00:05:58.580 --> 00:06:00.170 I want to share with you. Bye!