Real time captioning for hearing impaired students introduced

A real time captioning service for hearing impaired students was introduced to university teaching and meeting rooms in April. The Teaching Facilities Support Unit (TFSU) and the Disability Liaison Unit worked with the Australian Caption Centre (ACC) to trial and implement the service.

By using a hand held or wireless lapel microphone, the sound output is sent to the ACC (via a telephone line) which then transcribes the information received. Our students can then access the real time transcript via a web browser (and the ACC website) on their notebook which is connected via the Monash wireless network. The students also receive a written transcript from the ACC.

The Faculty of Science and the School of Biomedical Sciences are using the service on the Clayton campus. The Caulfield campus will be the next site to be linked to the service.