Easter Seals Canada has been collaborating with the Liberated Learning Consortium’s Youth Initiative, which strives to empower students with disabilities through a new Speech Recognition transcription service. The Liberated Learning Consortium is an international research group dedicated to improving access to information through Speech Recognition based captioning and transcription service. This service improves accessibility for students with disabilities in a learning environment.

During the project, participants will be given special user accounts where they will be able to upload recorded lectures and receive speech recognition generated, multimedia transcripts. The Transcribe your class Hosted Transcription Service converts your professor’s voice into written words that can be used to study from. Either you or your instructor can simply upload an audio file of the lecture and get a transcribed copy fast.  The text is even synchronized with the original audio, so it’s easy to find words and phrases.

The call to participate is now available. Brief application forms for Students, Faculty, and Support Professionals are posted at www.transcribeyourclass.ca

This winter 2011 academic year, there will be 75 user accounts available. Given the project focus, applications from students with disabilities directly will have priority. Let your professors know about this service and sign up today. Spaces are limited so don’t let this opportunity pass you by.