Hello all. I was wondering, how was your closed captioning at schools you went to. In college or high school or below. Did you ever have a class where they couldn't get you interpreter? What happen? How do your school usually give closed caption? Is there anything that can be better?
And would you prefer automatic closed caption you view on a website?
Do you like the idea of all teachers wear a microphone and all you need to do is open a website and view captions live?
And you can type question to the teacher so they see?
One time I had a court reporter or CART(Communication Access Real Time) for a math class and it worked out very well. As long as the court reporter is a good typist and I had a laptop in front of me to read what was going on in the class. Another time when sign language interpreters was not available I had a skype set up with a captioner and I was able to follow the teacher but of course the internet kept disconnecting. This was a while ago when it happen.
I am assuming you speaking of webcaptioner.com? I saw it and it looked cool. I haven't tried that in real life class though. I have used google Live Transcribe app in a small casual art class setting where the speaker was very loud and it picked up really good. It's not perfect though. I would need to try a microphone to see if it works.
I also had student note takers since I was watching the sign language interpreter and it's hard to write notes and watch the same time. So having extra notes is helpful. Another idea is to see if your teacher can send you lecture slides or allow you to record his lecture either video or sound and then have it transcribe it so just another way. But depends on teacher/professor since some don't like to be recorded.
It just depends on the college and the available of interpreter/resources they have. The more deaf/hoh area it is they more services they might have. So if you're near a Deaf school or a college they might have more resources available. At least that's what my experience was so far. Now with new tech things might be a bit different now.