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Cloud-Based Assistive Speech-Transcription Services

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Real-time speech transcription is a service of potentially tre- mendous positive impact on quality of life of the hearing-impaired. Recent advances in technologies of mobile networks, cloud services, speech transcription and mobile clients allowed us to build eScribe, a ubiquitiously available, cloud-based, speech-transcription service. We present the deployed system, evaluate the applicability of automated speech recognition using real measurements and outline a vision of the future enhanced platform, crowdsourcing human transcribers in social networks.

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  • Hearing-Impaired
  • Cloud Computing
  • Voice Recognition

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Bumbalek, Z., Zelenka, J., Kencl, L. (2012). Cloud-Based Assistive Speech-Transcription Services. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_17

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