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Talk to your Computer: Speech recognition tips and tricks

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Talk to your Computer: Speech recognition tips and tricks

Primary Presenter: Catherine Stager-Kilcommons

Co-Presenter: Susan Kelmer

Organization: University of Colorado Boulder

Role: General Professional for Disabilities Services

Track: Demonstration with some hands-on

Level: For Mere Mortals

Abstract: Like many other technologies developed for adaptive computing, speech input has continued to expand in robustness and practicality. Learn some of the tips for working with speech to text and have a chance to talk to your computer. Bring your own computer or device or use one of our laptops.

Bio: Catherine Stager-Kilcommons has been University of Colorado at Boulder’s Assistive Technology Lab Coordinator since 2008, overseeing the Assistive Technology Lab, adaptive access to computers, the delivery of alternate format textbooks to students with disabilities, and helping strategize methods of access to the information students need to succeed.

Before coming to CU, Cath worked with Assistive Technology in higher education for twelve years at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. She is one of the founding members of ATHEN Access Technology Higher Education Network.

Cath has 12 years of experience in web accessibility, Universal Design, and is a Certified Usability Analyst.

In 2002, Cath received the Outstanding Effort Award for her work with CSU students with disabilities. As part of a grassroots movement towards web accessibility at CSU, she was asked to help formulate the CSU Web Access Policy, which was adopted in 2004. Working with “Access to Higher Education Through Universal Design for Learning “ (http://accessproject.colostate.edu), Cath was part of the team that was awarded the Provost’s N. Preston Davis Award for Instructional Innovation.

Cath continues to be involved with promoting Universal Design, a design concept which helps ensure all users, can interact with the web and their instructional materials. Cath is a member of the Assistive Technologist’s Higher Education Network, the International Usability Professionals' Association as well as the Accessing Higher Ground Planning Committee, the Chancellor’s Program Accessibility Committee and The Universal Design and Accessibility Committee.

Power Point of this presentation: Stager-Kilcommons' Talk to Your Computer PPT.pdf