Dear Rhonda:
I am writing in response to your inquiry from a deaf-blind person named
Jaime about the use of the BN with real time captioning. I believe she
was talking about the use of CART reporters in classroom settings, where
they take down the lecture using steno machines. For hearing impaired
students, these steno machines are connected to laptops running special
software which displays the transcription in regular text on the laptop
screen.
I am deaf-blind and I used CART reporters when I was taking courses for my
master's degree in computer science at Boston University. We were able to
connect a laptop I had with a refreshable braille display (the
PowerBraille) to the CART reporter's laptop and I could read the lecture
during class. I also got a file of the transcription after class.
I don't know how the latest version of the CART software would work
withthe BN. My guess is that the BN would need to be connected to a
laptop running a screen reader tht works withthe BN (Jaws, Window-Eyes,
etc.) and this would in turn need to be connected tothe cART reporter's
laptop. If it hasn't already been done, some experimenttion would need to
be done (we had to do this at the begniiing).
The method that another deaf-blind BN user on this list described for
face-to-face communication will not work for lectures because a steno
machine has to be used to keep up withthe lecturer speaking at 150 or 200
words a minute. It would be very hard to do this with a regular
keyboard.
I should probably explain CART reporters. In court, they are called court
reporters. Outside of court, they are called CART reporters. CART
stands, I believe, for "computer assisted real time." They are certified
court reporters but using the steno machines for non-court purposes
(lectures, conferences, meetings).
HTH ... Barb
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