ext_200766 ([identity profile] askeladden.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rm 2010-08-29 05:48 pm (UTC)

NTID is awesome (my former ASL teacher went there and told some great stories about it), but I hate that the page you linked to says "real-time captioning (C-Print)". C-print is not realtime captioning; it's a non-verbatim notetaking system that uses abbreviation-expanding algorithms to let people type around 140 to 160 words per minute on a regular qwerty keyboard, which is often only fast enough to give PowerPoint-style bullet point summaries of what's being said. CART is true verbatim realtime captioning, and uses a steno machine to write up to 260 words per minute. Sorry for the pedantry, but it really bothers me when people (especially Deaf universities that should know better!) treat CART and C-Print/Typewell as equivalent technologies. Notetaking systems are much cheaper than CART, and it's easier to find people willing to learn them because the training period is a matter of weeks rather than years, but they're really not capable of offering true equal access.

/rant

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