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E-Scribe: Ubiquitous Real-Time Speech Transcription for the Hearing-Impaired

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2010)

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Availability of real-time speech transcription anywhere, anytime, represents a potentially life-changing opportunity for the hearing-impaired to improve their communication capability. We present e-Scribe, a prototype web-based online centre for real-time speech transcription for the hearing-impaired, which provides ubiquitous access to speech transcription utilizing contemporary communication technologies.

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  1. R&D Centre for Mobile Applications (RDC), Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Zdenek Bumbalek, Jan Zelenka & Lukas Kencl

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study,, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

  4. University of San Francisco The Universal Math Access Lab, 281 Masonic, 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

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Bumbalek, Z., Zelenka, J., Kencl, L. (2010). E-Scribe: Ubiquitous Real-Time Speech Transcription for the Hearing-Impaired. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6180. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14100-3_25

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