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Follow on Google News | Talkingpoint Helps Bring 70 Year Old Natural History Records to Life for A New GenerationTalkingPoint speech technology is enabling one volunteer academic to share her scientific expertise with the Oxford University Museum
By: Accelerate Associates Professor Caroline Pond, who had a long and distinguished career as Professor of Comparative Anatomy at The Open University, volunteered her skills but requested the use of TalkingPoint as an assistive technology. Commenting on the project Professor Pond said: “I knew I had the ability to help digitise natural history records but due to long-term health problems, I cannot type for long periods, which would obviously be necessary for this role! However, I have been a user of the TalkingPoint voice recognition assistive technology for years, so I requested an updated version of the technology for my computer. Professor Pond’s speech recognition vocabulary contains numerous scientific and technical terms, many, especially the taxonomic names, long and complicated. For Professor Pond, a key feature of the TalkingPoint workflow has been the ability to train her PC to recognise taxonomic, anatomical, biochemical, geographical and geological terms and to recognise a set of simple voice commands that enable her to insert special symbols and font formats without the need for a keyboard or mouse. Professor Pond adds: “TalkingPoint has been invaluable for me, and allowed me to keep working until I was ready to retire. It has also meant that I can volunteer for projects where I can use my scientific expertise. I have transcribed over half a million words so far. Without TalkingPoint, this would not have been possible”. The scientific volunteers are undertaking a challenging venture. The old scientific manuscripts are partly handwritten and partly typed with old, smudgy typewriter ribbons on grey wartime paper, so are often difficult to read. School Greek and Latin from 50 years ago have been useful for deciphering taxonomic names from their classical roots. Discussing the other merits of TalkingPoint’ For further information on TalkingPoint and how it could assist your working environment log onto: www.talkingpoint.uk.com, or telephone: 01908 565 663. Contact: Philippa Bevan Accelerate Associates Jupiter House, Drummond Road, Astonfields Stafford, Staffordshire, ST16 3HJ +44 0 1785 747 102 philippa@accelerate- http://www.accelerate- End
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