scholarly journals Embracing the Complexity

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Davitti ◽  
Annalisa Sandrelli
Keyword(s):  
Time Lag ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Subjective Ratings ◽  
Pilot Phase ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Speech Recognition Software ◽  
Recognition Software ◽  
Accuracy Rates ◽  
Key Questions

This paper presents the key findings of the pilot phase of SMART (Shaping Multilingual Access through Respeaking Technology), a multidisciplinary international project focusing on interlingual respeaking (IRSP) for real-time speech-to-text. SMART addresses key questions around IRSP feasibility, quality and competences. The pilot project is based on experiments involving 25 postgraduate students who performed two IRSP tasks (English–Italian) after a crash course. The analysis triangulates subtitle accuracy rates with participants’ subjective ratings and retrospective self-analysis. The best performers were those with a composite skillset, including interpreting/subtitling and interpreting/subtitling/respeaking. Participants indicated multitasking, time-lag, and monitoring of the speech recognition software output as the main difficulties; together with the great variability in performance, personal traits emerged as likely to affect performance. This pilot lays the conceptual and methodological foundations for a larger project involving professionals, to address a set of urgent questions for the industry.

Implementation of a Voice-ControlSystem for Issuing Commands in a Virtual Manufacturing Simulation Process

2014 ◽  
Vol 980 ◽  
pp. 165-171
Author(s):  
Yun Suen Pai ◽  
Hwa Jen Yap ◽  
Ramesh Singh
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Virtual Manufacturing ◽  
Numerical Control ◽  
Robot Arm ◽  
Cnc Machine ◽  
Simulation Process ◽  
Speech Recognition Software ◽  
Programming Knowledge ◽  
Recognition Software

Speech recognition is a technology that attempts to involve audio cues during interaction with machines, instead of being limited to just visual and touch interfaces. However, a keyboard and mouse input is an archaic method of interaction, adding on to the fact that voice control is seemingly more natural. This study aims to implement speech recognition as a form of machine control to perform simple commands in a virtual simulation process. The simulation system is an in-house developed augmented reality robotic work cell which includes a robot arm, a conveyer belt, a computer numerical control (CNC) machine, and a pellet. Issuing commands are performed via the Windows Speech Recognition software built from the Microsoft Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI). This software is advantageous because it can be fairly accurate once trained properly, is easily modifiable by anyone regardless of the operator’s programming knowledge, and is free. A macros tool is used to support the additional features of the recognition software which includes directly programmable Extensible Markup Language (XML) codes.

Support Technique for Real-Time Captionist to Use Speech Recognition Software

2008 ◽  
pp. 647-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeki Miyoshi ◽  
Hayato Kuroki ◽  
Sumihiro Kawano ◽  
Mayumi Shirasawa ◽  
Yasushi Ishihara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Speech Recognition Software ◽  
Recognition Software

Voice/Speech Recognition Software

2013 ◽  
pp. 1005-1011
Author(s):  
Andrew Kitchenham ◽  
Doug Bowes
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Voice Recognition ◽  
Special Needs Students ◽  
Speech Recognition Software ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Recognition Software

In this chapter, the authors discuss the promise of speech or voice recognition software and provide practical suggestions for the teacher or any stakeholder working with a disabled child. The authors begin the chapter with a brief overview of the legislation mandating the accommodation of special needs students in the classroom and discuss the implications of assistive technology. The authors then move on to an examination of the promise of the software. The authors end the chapter with practical ideas for implementation should the caregiver believe that voice recognition software will assist the disabled child in the learning process.

scholarly journals Implementation of Facebook study groups as supplements for learning management systems in adult ODL environments

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena ◽  
Tham Choy Yoong
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Online Tool ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Learning Management ◽  
Support Students

As an open and distance learning (ODL) institution, Wawasan Open University (WOU) employs a blended approach for delivering courses to its undergraduate and postgraduate students, who are entirely adult learners. In this approach, the use of a learning management system (LMS) is absolutely crucial for student support as well as the enhancement of the whole learning experience to compensate for the lack of face-to-face interaction between the students and the academics. WawasanLearn, the open source, Moodle-based LMS system used by WOU, is a comprehensive online tool that enables students and academics to effectively interact in a virtual environment. However, analysis of data from several semesters shows that the rate of student interaction on WawasanLearn is low with respect to the sharing of knowledge. In order to qualitatively and quantitatively identify the factors contributing to the student participation rate in WawasanLearn, a survey was conducted among the undergraduate students studying in various disciplines including science and technology, business administration, liberal studies, education, languages and communication. Feedback regarding the manner of support students expect from WawasanLearn was gathered from close to 550 students throughout Malaysia. Another purpose of the survey was to identify whether and why students are drawn to participate more frequently in social networking platforms such as Facebook (facebook.com). As a result of the findings of the survey, a pilot project was implemented to study the use of Facebook groups as study groups for supplementing WawasanLearn. These study groups were run in parallel to WawasanLearn for seven course modules over two consecutive semesters. This paper discusses the findings of this pilot project with respect to the implementation of Facebook groups as supplements to the LMS in an adult ODL environment.

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