What is Voice-Activated Captioning?
One way to do real-time captioning is with speech recognition software. The person who does the speaking will need to work with the software program so the PC recognizes/understands his/her voice. If the captioning will be used in church, the software training must take place in the church setting. For a Bible class, the training needs to accustom the software to the acoustics of the classroom. With regular use and training, a high level of speech recognition accuracy can be achieved. The liturgy and hymns need to be typed on the computer before the church service. A computer operator needs to scroll down, displaying these words on the TV screen, until the pastor offers extemporaneous prayers or preaches the sermon. Then the computer operator turns on the microphone so the speech- recognition software does the dictating. When the pastor is finished, the microphone is turned off and the computer scrolls down until the microphone needs to be turned on again. Organ music interferes with t
