kimpossible
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i use TypeWell for my university courses. in my experience, the TypeWell transcribers aren't as fast as the CART transcribers i've had. i know it's probably just a matter of who the transcriber is and how experienced they are, but i noticed that CART uses a different (albeit older-looking) technology, so i'm not sure. I was wondering what the huge difference is...?
the woman in charge of disability services at my school told me at the start of the first semester (at the very end of august just before classes started in september) that she wouldnt be able to provide me a real-time captioning service when i requested it because my request was too late and it takes several months to arrange for a transcriber. (i'll quote her: "so for now, student notetakers will suffice.")
so i stayed with student notetakers for the first semester. but for one class i was having tons of trouble understanding the teacher and i panicked to the disability services woman. so she arranged for me to have a CART transcriber almost instantly, and the transcriber stayed with me through that class throughout the rest of the semester. the CART transcriber was great and got every single word/sound made onto the transcript (although i feel very sorry for her since each of my classes were three hours long and there was a LOT of talking with only a 15 minute break in between). still, i didn't really understand why i had to have TypeWell instead of CART.
now that the second semester has started, i finally have TypeWell in all but one of my classes. i have three different transcribers, usually two per class taking turns since the classes are so long. but they are kind of slow at typing - seriously, I can type faster on a regular computer than they can type using that real time technology. i'm not exaggerating; to be honest, it's not bad at all, and i'd take TypeWell anytime over student notetakers (who aren't even trained and just copy stuff off the board).
my question is, does anyone know why the disability services woman wanted me to use TypeWell over CART? the transcripts are significantly shorter and i dont know absolutely everything that is said in class when i have TypeWell. with CART, it's almost as if i had trouble keeping up with everything that was said; with TypeWell, i fall asleep staring at the screen as i wait for words to appear. is it a matter of cost, maybe?
edit: sorry if this belongs under the Captioning category
the woman in charge of disability services at my school told me at the start of the first semester (at the very end of august just before classes started in september) that she wouldnt be able to provide me a real-time captioning service when i requested it because my request was too late and it takes several months to arrange for a transcriber. (i'll quote her: "so for now, student notetakers will suffice.")
so i stayed with student notetakers for the first semester. but for one class i was having tons of trouble understanding the teacher and i panicked to the disability services woman. so she arranged for me to have a CART transcriber almost instantly, and the transcriber stayed with me through that class throughout the rest of the semester. the CART transcriber was great and got every single word/sound made onto the transcript (although i feel very sorry for her since each of my classes were three hours long and there was a LOT of talking with only a 15 minute break in between). still, i didn't really understand why i had to have TypeWell instead of CART.
now that the second semester has started, i finally have TypeWell in all but one of my classes. i have three different transcribers, usually two per class taking turns since the classes are so long. but they are kind of slow at typing - seriously, I can type faster on a regular computer than they can type using that real time technology. i'm not exaggerating; to be honest, it's not bad at all, and i'd take TypeWell anytime over student notetakers (who aren't even trained and just copy stuff off the board).
my question is, does anyone know why the disability services woman wanted me to use TypeWell over CART? the transcripts are significantly shorter and i dont know absolutely everything that is said in class when i have TypeWell. with CART, it's almost as if i had trouble keeping up with everything that was said; with TypeWell, i fall asleep staring at the screen as i wait for words to appear. is it a matter of cost, maybe?
edit: sorry if this belongs under the Captioning category
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