The government have clarified changes to the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA), which mean that universities need to find ways to make teaching and learning more inclusive. This demonstration will enable participants to experience how Synote has been used at the University of Southampton and other universities to address DSA cut by enhancing a lecture recording through providing an online searchable interactive transcript time synchronised with video, audio and notes. Automatic machine captioning is affordable compared with professional human captioning and notetaking and can give just as good results when students are provided with the ability to correct any speech recognition errors in the transcript.

1. Inclusively Enhancing Learning
from Lecture Recordings
Professor MikeWald & DrYunjia Li

2. Inclusively Enhancing Learning from
Lecture Recordings
Professor Mike Wald & Dr Yunjia Li

3. Notetaking £180,000/yr University of XXXX
Dyslexia
Physical disability
Visual disability
Hearing disability
Medical
Mental Health
£180,000/yr

4. HEFCE doubled disabled student funding 2016-18 to help
universities move towards inclusive approach
“there are some very simple changes that can make a
significant difference to student outcomes around
inclusive practice … Allow or facilitate the recording of
teaching”
Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Higher Education as a route
to Excellence: Disabled Student Sector Leadership Group report
January 2017

5. All university students learn better when they make their
own notes rather than use notes made by somebody else
Notetaker not necessary with synote synchronised
transcript and slides
Only hearing impaired students who can’t check
recording to correct transcription errors need support

6. By National Association of the Deaf who also
successfully sued Netflix to caption all their videos
“the selection of such high-profile defendants will
send a signal ... so we are suing them first and expect
to ensure full online video access at all other
universities and colleges across the country. “

7.  Hearing impaired
 Search
 Print
 Read anywhere
 Learn faster
 Low bandwidth
 Silent
 Non native speaker
 Non native listener
Uses commercial manual captioning £80 - £200 /hr
Too Expensive for Universities !Too Expensive

8. The Equality Act 2010 requires universities to make
anticipatory reasonable adjustments
University should caption all Lecture recordings and not
only caption a lecture recording if requested by hearing
impaired student
University might claim £100/hr manual captioning not
reasonable
University cannot claim £2/hr cost of Synote not
reasonable.

9. “How to recognise speech using common sense”
“How to wreck a nice beach you sing calm incense”
Commercial error correction £80 - £200 /hr
Too Expensive for Universities !

10. Speech Recognition More Accurate
Than Human Transcribers
• professionals had 5.9% and 11.3% error rates
• speech recognition had 5.9% and 11.1% error rates
Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech
Recognition : W. Xiong, J. Droppo, X. Huang, F. Seide, M.
Seltzer, A. Stolcke, D. Yu, G. Zweig: Microsoft Research
Technical Report MSR-TR-2016-71 February 2017

11. Solution: Use Students
Collaborative error correction of Speech Recognition
Verification by comparing corrections
Score for Motivation
Self Interest
Altruism
Rewards

12. Why Use Students?
Correct errors in their own lectures
Little extra effort as they listen, watch, read already
Know subject better than professional captioner
Improves learning and engagement with video
University & student choose appropriate reward

13. Lecture Recordings
Speech
Speech
Recognition
Captioning
Collaborative
Caption Error
Correction
Student Rewards
Slide detection
Video

17. Learning from lecture recording without Synote
is like
learning from text book with NO
•contents/index
•page numbers
•chapter/section headings
•annotation/notes/bookmarks

18. Flexible ways to take notes with Synote
Live: No need to write what is said
Replay: Search transcript pause/rewind recording
Digital: Make on mobile device and copy into Synote
Make when replay recording
Copy Synote transcript/slides/notes into Word
Print and paste into Synote print out
Paper: Flexible and supports diagrams
Paste/staple into Synote print out
Print transcript/slides/notes for editing
Replay from QR codes and listen on mobile device
Scan and paste into Synote

19. What Students Say
“It is a great tool for increasing the
accessibility of lectures”

20. Would Students Require a Reward?
Yes 36%
“Money”
“Marks”
No 64%
“For my own personal revision
of lectures”
“More accurate transcript gives
better search”
“It just being there would be enough
motivation to use it”
“You shouldn’t need rewarding for using a
tool like this”
“Wouldn’t really need motivation, if I saw a
mistake I would correct it”

21. ‘I think this is a fantastic idea!
Exactly the kind of beneficial
invention that makes me
pleased to work here’
Head of information
University of Southampton

22. ‘Your solution is exactly what is
needed as it leaves the
university to sort out the
student rewards’
Director of Digital Learning
University of XXXXX

23. National Teaching
Fellowship Award
Learning Technologist
of the Year Award
WISE Award

24. Affordable Transcription/Captioning of
Lecture Recordings
Supports Inclusive learning, retention &
recruitment
Enables Universities to comply with law

25. captioning/transcription
4 hour turnaround time
pay as you go
•£3.60 per hour (6p per minute): 75% accuracy
•£4.20 per hour (7p per minute): 80% accuracy
•£5.40 per hour (9p per minute): 90% accuracy
12 month plan
•Extra 0.57% discount for every 1k hrs
•If plan hours used up can start a new plan
Collaborative editing and note taking
• +30p/video hr
Mobile & print friendly function
•+30p/video hr for further hours.

26. > >Slide
jisc.ac.uk
Mike Wald
DrYunjia Li
Contact
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