Microsoft AI Gives Deaf RIT Students Auto-Captioning Boost in Lecture Presentations

Campus Technology: The Rochester Institute of Technology is one of nine colleges to pilot the use of an artificial intelligence-powered speech and language technology that Microsoft has produced.

The institute's 1,500 students who are deaf and hard of hearing make up the largest mainstream program in the United States. To serve them, the college employs a full-time staff of about 140 interpreters for American Sign Language interpretation and 50 "captionists" who use C-Print, an institute-developed technology, to deliver transcriptions of lectures in real time that are displayed on the laptops and tablets of students who want or need them.

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