Summary:
If you're a student, apprentice, or vocational trainee, Ava is here to help you caption all your online or classroom exchanges and classes.
Below you'll find a guide for each situation:
Ava for classroom transcription
To begin with, let's take a look at face-to-face courses at universities or schools. For this type of course, you'll need:
💻 1 computer with Ava software
You can also use your phone with Ava, but we recommend the computer for better reading comfort.
🎤 1 Bluetooth microphone
The audio transmitted to Ava will be of good quality, and you'll be able to position yourself wherever you like in the lecture hall or auditorium.
If you'd like recommendations on microphone models, please see this article.
📶 1 internet connection
Here are some helpful Help Desk Articles:
🖥 Discover Ava's Desktop App - learn more about Ava's Desktop App that is best for using captions in an education setting
How to Pair a Bluetooth Device - we recommend using a Bluetooth microphone for any class setting to get the best captions
How to find the link to an online meeting by platform, for Ava Connect - learn more about how to caption an online class
Ava for captioning an online class
Let's move on to the next step, a type of course that has become much more widely available as a result of confinement, but which is very rarely accessible to deaf or hard-of-hearing students: online courses. With Ava, subtitling a videoconference course becomes easy, and to do so you need :
💻 1 computer with Ava software
📶 1 internet connection
Ava Pro for your studies
Talk to your establishment's "accessibility manager" about Ava.
Ava software is free to download and use. With the free license you get unlimited credit in basic quality (each conversation limited to 40min).
For students, we offer the Ava Pro license which, in combination with a Bluetooth microphone, gives you unlimited subtitling credit in Premium quality (95% accuracy), longer conversations (2h instead of 40min, perfect for classes).
What's more, the Ava Pro license gives you access to numerous features such as "Dictionary Boost" to enhance your Ava dictionary with terms specific to your courses, or the translation feature that lets you translate your exchanges, live, into over 16 languages), recording of written transcriptions, etc.).
This license can be fully paid for by your school or university, so you won't have to pay a thing.
Would you like to find out more about Ava Pro and receive support in obtaining funding from your school or university? Contact us at hello@ava.me
Finally, don't forget that the Ava Scribe service is very useful for courses and can also be paid for by your school or university! This service allows you to call on a human transcriber who corrects any errors made by the robot, giving you 99% accuracy!
Other student situations
Don't forget that Ava is also useful in other situations, as a real pocket companion available on mobile and computer, 24/7.
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