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Mike,<br>
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Good luck with it. You might try contacting deaf agencies that can
give you a contact.<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/12/2016 02:55 PM, Mike Fryer
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:3E67974D-A8B2-42DC-A76A-E4D5A4085349@mikefryer.co.uk"
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<div>Thanks again for your response. Yes, a transcriber is someone
who writes or types the spoken word. I have been doing some
digging and it seems over here (England) CART is known as '<span
style="font-family: 'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica
Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: start; text-indent:
0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing:
0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color:
rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">speech
to text reporting' or 'live captioning' (with a stenographer
or palantypist) so I have been able to find some contacts (so
far only commercial but will keep looking for voluntary
services etc.) I will look into this and find out what can be
done.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Open
Sans', HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; line-height: 23px; ">Thanks again</span></div>
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Sans', HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; line-height: 23px; ">Mike</span></div>
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<div>On 12 Apr 2016, at 18:29, Bill Reese wrote:</div>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Mike,<br>
I don't know what you mean by transcriber but I'm guessing
it's someone that types on a regular keyboard? If so,
then yes, CART is very much faster and more accurate than
that. Typists can't keep up with speech, CART can.<br>
<br>
If you have decent cell phone coverage at your church, try
using a smart phone that can be a wifi hotspot. That's
what we do for my Association of Late-Deafened Adults
(ALDA) support group that meets at my church. The CART
provider not only transcribes the meetings for those who
are attending but also uses a phone's hotspot to connect
to the internet to allow home-bound and out-of-town
members to attend the meeting as well. She also uses
streamtext's ability to allow users to log in and send
text to enable those members to send in comments (and
votes if it's a board meeting).<br>
<br>
I don't think you want to go the route of buying the
transcribing program. You would still need a CART
provider to operate the stenotype machine and the program
itself costs thousands with a hefty yearly subscription
fee.<br>
<br>
I've had 20 years of experience with CART and sign
language interpreting and CART is your best option for
someone who is very hard-of-hearing or has gone deaf and
isn't proficient in sign language. I'm also the vice
president of a non-profit that provides CART for support
groups (HLA, ALDA, a few others) and for deaf counseling.
I know it can be done. Keep looking. You might want to
try starting here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ncrasourcebook.com/listing/results.php?keyword=&service_type=5&category_id=&location_1=&location_3=&location_4=&dist=&zip=">http://www.ncrasourcebook.com/listing/results.php?keyword=&service_type=5&category_id=&location_1=&location_3=&location_4=&dist=&zip=</a>
and putting in your location. Your state may also have
it's own listing of CART providers. <br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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Fryer wrote:<br>
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<div>This sounds very interesting with applications way
beyond providing text for Deaf people. I assume the
advantage of using a stenographer over a transcriber
is that using the stenotype would be quicker and more
accurate? The problem for us is that we don't have the
resources to employ either a transcriber or
stenographer and we don't even have internet access in
our church building! </div>
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<div>This is a method that we could definitely think
about using in the future so many thanks for
describing it. Do you know what software is available
for translating the shorthand?</div>
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<div>Best wishes</div>
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<div>Mike</div>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Mike,<br>
Rather than trying a voice-to-text app, which
can be difficult, slow, with grammar errors
(auto-complete), try setting up remote CART.
CART stands for Communication Access Real-time
Translation. Basically, a CART provider listens
in to the sermon at his/her home (or wherever) -
usually through a cell phone used by the person
talking - and codes it in
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<span style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25);
font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing:
0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display:
inline !important; float: none;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">shorthand
</span>with a stenotype machine. Special
software in a computer (usually a laptop)
translates the shorthand from the stenotype into
words. These words are then broadcast live over
the internet on a site such as <a
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href="http://www.streamtext.net/"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.streamtext.net">www.streamtext.net</a></a>.
It's a very quick, reliable, established method
and it can be accessed either on a computer or
smart phone.<br>
<br>
I have a good friend who just started her own
local Christian radio show and she's also a CART
provider and the sign interpreter at my church.
Because of her knowledge and background, she
provides remote CART for her radio show. Her
deaf friends (some who live a thousand miles
away) "listen" in. It's an amazing experience:
the deaf listening to a radio show .. who would
have thought?<br>
If you want to see a start page for the remote
CART, it's here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.streamtext.net/player?event=">http://www.streamtext.net/player?event=</a><br>
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If you want more information and want to see
about providing this for your church, contact me
privately and I can give you contact information
to get you started.<br>
<br>
Oh, and one other thing ... it provides a
transcript of the sermon, which can also be
posted on your website, or printed out,
archived, etc.<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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