David's CHS 202 Blog - Clemson University

In class today, we discussed the idea of speech-to-text recognition. While I don't have much time to post here on the subject, I would like to include a quick link to a text-to-speech device increasingly coming into use by hearing impaired individuals and others. It's called CART (Communication Access and Real Time Translation)and is derived from court room stenographic devices. Although I did not mention this in class, CART requires a captionist (very much similar to the lady who comes to my classes today) using a court-room stenographer. Although I made a distinction between the current system I use and the CART system, I realize there is probably not as much difference as I originally thought. Here's another description of the CART system provided by UCLA (one of many schools utilizing this technology for its students).