Communication Access Real-Time Translation

Communication Access Real-Time Translation

Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART) is the general name of the system that court reporters, closed captioners, and deaf persons to convert speech to text. A trained operator uses a keyboard or stenography methods to transcribe spoken speech into written text.

Remote CART, is done with the trained operator at a remote location. A voice connection such as a telephone, cellphone, or computer microphone is used to send the voice to the operator, and the text is transmitted back over a modem, Internet, or other data connection.

Resources

http://www.cartinfo.org

http://cart.ncraonline.org/

http://www.michdhh.org/assistive_devices/cart.html

http://deafness.about.com/cs/cart/a/cart.htm