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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. Back to text only demo part 1 Back to video demo |