Achieving acceptable accuracy in a low-cost, assistive note-taking, speech transcription system

Proceedings of the 4th IASTED International Conference on Telehealth and Assistive Technologies, Telehealth/AT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 72-77

  Way, Thomas ^a   Kheir, Richard ^a,b   Bevilacqua, Louis ^a  

^a Department of Computing Sciences and Center of Excellence in Enterprise Technology   (United States)

^b HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Accurate enough transcription; Assistive note taking; Low cost assistive technology; Real time speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE-ENOUGH TRANSCRIPTION; ASSISTIVE NOTE-TAKING; EMPIRICAL MEASURES; LOW-COST ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; REAL-TIME SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGIES; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTIONS;

COSTS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 62649124192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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