DSC 235 : Speech to Text for Deaf Community

This course identifies, evaluates, and develops transcription and note-taking competencies needed to provide computer-assisted, speech to text services to the Deaf community. Students process and condense auditory information, expand and build dictionaries, practice editing and formatting techniques, and increase both their typed and keyed words/minute. Course content explores the integration of handwritten notes and graphics with keyed text. Students apply cognitive skills and C-Print® principles to recorded audio exercises at the lecture level, as well as, acquire more advanced technical skills. Students also gain practical experience with condensing and/or summarizing auditory information through a note-taking service learning project. The course is supported by training materials developed by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Prerequisite: DSC 221 with a C or better or permission of the program director; co-requisite: DSC 236. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour per week. Instructional Support Fee applies.
  1. Replicate, condense and/or summarize auditory information (up to 70 wpm) into text at the lecture level both manually and by using computer-assisted programming.
  2. Revise/Format and save computer assisted raw transcription (or notes) into formatted electronic files that can be easily shared with consumers.
  3. Integrate external notes (power point, graphics, images, handwritten notes) with transcription or keyed notes.
  4. Create supplemental dictionaries and add to existing ones.
  5. Predict and problem solve common technical and environmental issues related to computer assisted note taking.
  6. Complete modules 4 and 5 of the NTID on-line training.

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