Text of video part 2
[0:00]
There are occasions where you have double letters for
instance [Text box shows the double letters “aa bb
cc“]. What happens there? Well?! [She signs the double
letters “aa”, “bb”, ‘cc”]. It does it correctly. They
are signed appropriately.
[0:17]
Let’s proceed.
[0:34]
Let me type in the word “access” [Types in the word
“access”], [she signs “access”]. All right, it was
signed appropriately.
[0:51]
However, as I mentioned before, there are various areas
in the country, where signs may be signed differently.
It might so happen, that some one may need verification
of the sign. The Signtel Interpreter enables you to
force a finger-spelling of any word you want. So, I am
going to position the cursor on the word [positioning
the cursor on the word “access”]; do a right click, and
here I am going to select force a finger-spelling. It is now
underlined to let you know that it will finger-spell it
and [she finger-spells the word “access”]. Properly
finger-spelled.
[1:33]
The Signtel Interpreter can of course be used for
emergency situations as well. If there is a situation
that can be predicted ahead of time and material can be
prepared and dragged and dropped into the Signtel
Interpreter, it will be signed for everybody to see.
Otherwise, something can be typed or spoken and
immediately the signing of it will appear. For example,
let’s take the case here [the sentence “Listen
everyone, leave immediately to the shelter in the
basement” is dragged and dropped onto the text box] and
[clicking on the “play” button. She signs “Listen
everyone, leave immediately to the shelter in the
basement”, while she also mouths it and speaks it in
voice].
[2:20]
Or, something else - [the sentence “Urgent all
employees and classes – close immediately all windows
due to poisonous air outside” is dragged and dropped
onto the text box]. [The “play” button is pressed and
she signs this sentence, mouths it and speaks it in
voice too]. This way, one does not have to go look for
an interpreter or do anything else. It is either
prepared and dragged and dropped, or typed, or spoken
and the alert is there.
[2:53]
We have seen that you can drag and drop a document into
the Signtel Interpreter and see it in sign language.
However, the Signtel Interpreter can do much more than
that. It can translate to sign language material from
the Internet, it can translate an email into sign
language, or translate a document that is typed, say in
“Word” or a letter that is being prepared. I will
demonstrate it by showing you that we don’t even have
to have the Signtel Interpreter on to do that. I am
going to click off everything on the screen right now,
including the Signtel Interpreter. Take a document that
was pre-prepared, so that I don’t have to type it now
[dragging and dropping onto the text box a document
that says: “I want to give credit to all the deaf who
worked so hard on this project. Our success proves that
the deaf are the best people to build products for the
deaf. We are excited to build and develop next
generation of accessibility technology"]. What I will
be doing is highlighting the document, click on a
combination of keys, and the window will pop up with
Maureen signing the material that is typed in the
document. At some point when she signs, I will close
the document, enlarge the screen, so that you can see
her signing in full screen.
[4:13]
OK – what I am going to do now, is highlight the
document [the document is highlighted], press the
combination “Control” + “Insert” + “Home” [these keys
are now pressed], [she now signs the content on the
screen, mouths it and voice is heard as well, while
omitting all the auxiliaries – the screen is enlarged
and only Maurine is seen signing on it].
[5:02]
The Signtel Interpreter also enables you to have
control over the various features and the settings. Let
us go to the toolbox, right here at the sign of the
wrench [clicks on the key that shows a wrench and a
window pops up with the various possibilities showing]
and as you notice, right on the upper left hand side we
have “View”. What is checked is the “Dictionary box”
and the “Text box”; sure enough, both are seen. I will
check off the “Dictionary box” and [shows now that the
“Dictionary box” widow has disappeared from view] we
don’t have it anymore. I’ll go back [shows again the
tool box], check off the “Text box” [shows how the
“Text box is checked off] and it’s gone [shows the
signing window by itself without the other windows]. I
will reinstate either one or both at the same time. I
will reinstate the “Dictionary box” [shows how to
reinstate it] - it’s there [shows the signing window
now has also the “Dictionary box” next to it]. I will
reinstate the “Text box” [shows how the “Text box” is
reinstated]. It’s back on [shows all three windows back
in their original position before they were clicked
off], and of course I could have reinstated them both
at the same time.
[6:15]
Let me go back to the settings [brings back to view the
window with the settings], and as you can see, I have
“Spelling” right below there – “Background” and
“Automatically “Correcting”. When you have a word that
is misspelled, it appears in red. Since it is checked,
it is functioning right now and I will purposefully
misspell the word “Hello” and put in three “L”s [the
word “hello” is typed in] and as you notice, it’s now
in red color, telling me it’s wrong. However, it
enables me to do more than that, because I can position
the cursor there; do a right click and I can find out
how to spell it correctly. Is it spelled correctly?
Does Maureen recognize it? [clicking play and she signs
the word “Hello”]. Yes. OK,
[7:18]
I will now go back to the setting’s “Font view” that
shows you font sizes. I can go down from “24” and
reduce the size. Everyone likes a different font size
and you can adjust it to your own desire. Of course you
have the default setting, so you can go there and have
it activated [shows the lowest bar on the right hand
side of the settings window that says: “Reset to
defaults”].
[7:48]
On the right hand side you have special features. You
have “Highlighting current words”; you have seen it in
green when it is signed, you have “Letters and
numbers”. “Sign auxiliary” is not checked – you recall,
we checked it out so that it is not signed as is
appropriate in ASL. “Translate idioms” is checked, so
it translates idioms and we saw that. “Text to speech”
we can hear the text. “Speech recognition”, which we
have seen as well. Set up of “Text to speech” and
“Speech recognition” set up is there as well.
[8:34]
One other important feature, is an on-screen support if
you have a question, it’s the “Help”. We click on it
[shows the “Help” key at the bottom and clicks on it]
and we can go and find out and read what is necessary
[shows the window with the material].
[8:55]
The Signtel Interpreter also comes with a quick
reference guide and a user’s manual. Here you have on
the screen the “Quick Reference Guide” [shown on the
screen], and you can go through it and whatever you
need, you can find there.
[9:14]
Also, you have a manual, the Signtel Interpreter
Manual; [shows a window with the manual] you can go
through the various subjects and also find your needs
right there. [9:25].
[9:26]
We’ll move now to the speech recognition portion of the
demonstration. First thing, I’ll show how to set the
microphone for the speech recognition portion. To
activate the settings I will click once on the wrench
at the upper left hand side. A window pops up, which is
the setting window [the window pops up]. On the right
hand side, you can see a long bar that says: “Speech
recognition setup”. I will click on it once; a window
pops up; it has my name here highlighted. I can of
course select another name. Clicking on the bar, there
are a few names here. I can keep my name or add a user.
Let’s see how it’s done. I will click on “add user”
[clicks on the bar that says “Add user”] – it enables
me to put another user in. I’ll key in the name
“Tester”, say “OK” [clicking on the bar that says “OK]
– now, I am in and I can move on to the audio wizard.
[10:43]
I will click on the right hand side, on the “Audio
Wizard” [clicks on it], a window comes up that welcomes
me [a window pops up that says “Welcome to the Audio
Wizard”]. I go to “Next” [clicks on the bar that says
“Next”] and I will select the key on the right hand
side that says: “Advanced” [click on it and a widow
pops up that has on the upper left hand side a box for
checking and it says “Recording device”].
[11:06]
I will now check the recording device here on the upper
left side [checks the box]. It brings up a window that
tells me to select the microphone that I am
using [a window becomes highlighted and says: “HD Audio
input”]. Then, I will click here [clicks on “USB
Headset”] since I am using a USB headset – this is the
one I will choose; but it’s not clicked in [box is not
checked yet], I’d like to make sure it’s the
microphone. I click the “Microphone” [clicks on it] and
I am ready to move on.
[11:28]
On the left hand side, I see “Recording settings”. I
will click the “Recording settings” and the next thing
I will do is go to the right hand side to the image and
the bar that says “Microphone” and click on it. Now, as
I talk you can see that the level of the recording
volume shows up and I can adjust it by moving to the
right, requesting a higher level; moving to the left,
etcetera. I’ll leave it where it is.
[12:10]
Go to the next one, number 3: “Silence Detection
level” and that depends on your environment. If it is a
noisy environment you will move it to the right as much
as necessary. If it is a very quiet environment, you
can move the bar much lower to adjust to the proper
silence detection level. When I am done, I will click
and get the audio wizard [the audio wizard window pops
up] but now, instead of saying “next”, I will simply
hit “Cancel” [clicks on the bar that says: “Cancel”].
[12:45]
I am back now to the speech recognition setup we
started with [the window of the speech recognition
wizard popped up]. I will click on “Training”, which is
just below it [clicks on the bar that says: Training”
and a window pops up with 9 topics to be selected
from].
[13:00]
As you can see the training topics are numbered one to
nine. Nine modules. The more modules you go through,
the more the speech recognition is improved. Let’s go
to the next one: “Introduction Welcome” [clicks on
module numbered one that says: Introduction Welcome”],
go to the “OK” [clicks on the bar at the bottom that
says: “OK”] and it wants me to read [a window opened
with text in it].
[13:24]
[the text in the window which is now read is: “Welcome,
EXCLAMATION MARK you have just reached the training
module PERIOD before you begin working with this speech
recognition COMMA it is highly recommended to complete
this training PERIOD
[13:45]
Once you have gone through a few modules, you will see
the “start processing” appearing at the bottom left
hand side; click on it and the system will start
processing the input from the speech recognition of
that module. You can further to additional modules,
or start using the system and the system will recognize
your voice. Of course, the more training you provide,
the more modules you go through, the better the
recognition would be. When you are ready to start using
the speech recognition, you activate the microphone,
right here at the lower left hand side [points to the
microphone button on the lower left hand side, just
below the wrench button].
[14:26]
[a window showing Dr. Liebermann in front of the laptop
wearing headphone, the Signtel Interpreter with all
three windows is on the screen and he is addressing the
viewer. The text of what he says is translated and
appears as text in the text window, and it is being
signed at the same time, while also mouthing the words]
“Signtel Interpreter also translates speech into sign
language. The more you train it, the better the
translation. Thank you for watching.” [14:39].
End of second video.
