Real-time transcription

Technology-augmented and virtual courts and courtrooms

Published in M. R. McGuire, Thomas J. Holt, The Routledge Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice, 2017

Many people are hard of hearing or deaf. Various forms of listening devices can amplify sound and transmit it wirelessly to headphones for those with constrained hearing. Those who have no hearing at all can be assisted via sign language, including remote sign language interpreters using video conferencing, or realtime transcription. Two-way remote sign language interpretation can also permit testimony by those who both cannot speak and cannot hear.

The Ideation Compass: supporting interdisciplinary creative dialogues with real time visualization

View Article

Journal Information

Published in International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 2023

Sander Välk, Chitipat Thabsuwan, Céline Mougenot

The tool was validated by measuring its real-time transcription accuracy. We used thematic podcasts from four disciplines as voice inputs to calculate word error rate (WER; Table 2). Overall, the transcription achieved a WER around 0.3 which is acceptable for an exploratory study.

Real-time transcription

Explore chapters and articles related to this topic

Technology-augmented and virtual courts and courtrooms

The Ideation Compass: supporting interdisciplinary creative dialogues with real time visualization