School captioning solution wins 'New Inventors'

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Thursday, 24 June 2010 10:26am

Australian access company Ai-Media triumphed on the ABC’s New Inventors television program last night with its Ai-Live school captioning solution. Three years in development, the Ai-Live product is several generations ahead of conventional  live speech recognition solutions used in general TV captioning. It has been extensively road-tested in pilots with the NSW Department of School Education and includes a student interface to allow direct communication between student and captioner.

MAA CEO Alex Varley said, “Ai-Media deserves all of the accolades for its in-school solution. It has been carefully thought through, properly tested and is an affordable, robust solution for Australia’s ten thousand Deaf and hearing impaired students. MAA has been involved in a steering group and is developing its Classroom Access Project with some input and crossover with Ai-Live.

“The New Inventors win will shine a greater spotlight on the need for solutions like these and the issues that Deaf and hearing impaired students face day to day , so that they are given the same opportunities as their peers.”

For more about the New Inventors win and the Ai-Live solution, see the Ai-Media website.

MAA’s education projects and searchable database of captioned education resources can be found on the education section of this website.

 


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