Speech recognition as an aid to hearing Seminar
- Time:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Date:
- 14 February 2012
- Venue:
- Building 13 Room 3021
For more information regarding this seminar, please telephone Stephanie O'Keefe on +44 (0)23 8059 2277 or email .m.o’keefe@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Hearing and Balance Centre Seminar
This seminar will explore the potential of speech recognition technology to provide great benefits to deaf and hearing impaired people by automatically transforming speech they find difficult to hear or understand into text that they can easily read.
All welcome to attend.
Speaker information
Dr Mike Wald ,Dr Mike Wald is a founding member of the International Liberated Learning Consortium that since 1999 has worked with IBM to help turn this vision into a reality. His award winning web application 'Synote' has since 2008 used automatic speech recognition to automatically transcribe and caption lectures at the University of Southampton. Dr Wald leads the accessible technologies team at ECS (Electronics and Computer Science) University of Southampton and has taught deaf children and children with multiple disabilities, researched the scientific fitting of hearing aids at ISVR and was a chairman and founding member of the British Society of Audiology Hearing Aid Audiology Group."