{"id":1233,"date":"2019-06-27T10:20:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T10:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2019-07-04T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T10:45:14","slug":"how-to-get-an-automatic-transcription-software-to-more-accurately-caption-your-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/posts\/1233","title":{"rendered":"Zoom: How to get automatic transcription tools to work for you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Transcriptions and captions are useful tools that can make video and audio learning materials more accessible not only to students with hearing impairments but also to\u00a0 students who are learning in a foreign language, students working in noisy environments or even students who do not have good quality internet connectivity.<\/p>\n

We want the transcripts to be 100% accurate but this is not achievable with automatic transcription software and technology available today.\u00a0 However, research has shown that even with 25% Word Error Rate (or less) were found to be useful and usable (Munteanu, et al, 2006).<\/p>\n

At UCEM, we have rolled out Zoom as our webinar software,\u00a0 which\u00a0 provides a feature of automatic\u00a0 transcriptions.<\/p>\n

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Zoom recording showing transcript<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So now all our recorded webinars show a transcript on the side. This allows students to search for a certain word in the webinar and then jump to the location of the video directly.<\/p>\n

However, the transcript is not 100% accurate.\u00a0 According to\u00a0 Jonathan Dame<\/a>\u00a0‘s Blog post\u00a0 Automated transcription services could be integral to web conferencing,<\/a>\u00a0 with ideal conditions Zoom’s transcription feature is 90% accurate and with high quality recordings it is up to 92.34% accurate. In a small study conducted at UCEM, we got the highest accuracy of nearly 79% and lowest of almost 71% with Zoom.\u00a0 You can read the full paper\u00a0Automatic Transcription Software: Good Enough for Accessibility? A Case Study from Built Environment Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But how can you increase the chance of your voice being transcribed more accurately?<\/p>\n