What is CART?

CART stands for Communication Access Realtime Translation, an American term. In the UK, the equivalent is known as Speech-to-Text (STT). This is the true verbatim live transcription of speech – not voice recognition or respeaking, which are not verbatim.

If you’d like to find out more about CART or speech to text, contact us at bookings@121captions.com and ask for a demonstration and we can discuss your captioning needs.

Author: Rob Roth, AccessComputing staff

AccessComputing announces a new 7minute-34 second video, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) Services for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People, that explores what CART is and where it can be used. The video is ideal for anyone who is deaf or hard of hearing and is considering what types of accommodations would be best for participating in a college-level class or at a conference.The video was developed after it was discovered that few, if any, resources were available on the Internet to explain what CART and other captioning systems were. Four students from the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing, including two ASL signers, speak about why they chose captioning within a STEM educational setting.

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