Quinn Stewart first made us aware of a very good website - the Captioned Media Program. This site is administered by the National Association of the Deaf and funded by the U.S. Department of Education. It focuses on the deaf and hard of hearing and advocates for accessible media. This site also provides captioning guidelines. Susan Rittereiser mentioned that the WGBH NACM site (National Center for Accessible Media) has good audio guidelines. Also check out their Learning Area and the Media Access Group's information.
Quinn then demonstrated iListen a voice recognition product by MacSpeech that runs on Macs. iListen accessory include He also demonstrated ViaVoice, a voice recognition product devloped by IBM but now owned byScanSoft. They are both less than $200 and require 'training.' With ViaVoice, you can split out the audio track from a Camtasia-created tutorial, open it in ViaVoice and have a transcription created.
Egan Jones then demonstrated a PHP application that he is developing that will assign a timecode to a transcript. He needs assistance to finish it - it will have a Flash an QuickTime interface with PHP as the code. He's shown this application to the PHP User's Group and will show it to the Flash User's Group this week. It will import a transcription, have "push button" timecoding, and an administrative area where formatting and styles can be set. He wants our input to set out the specs for this type of application. PDF versions of the main interface, administrative features, and programming functionality are available.
We then discussed training classes that people would like to attend over the summer. Mark Rogers (College of Communications) can provide Final Cut Pro classes, Basics and Advanced. There is also interest in a class about Workflow: Planning to Production, and one on Cleaner. I will work to make them happen and send out a summer schedule as soon as it is created.