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
Download and install Ava by clicking here.
Log in using the method you chose when registering (Google, Mail, Phone, Facebook, Apple)
Connect your Bluetooth microphone to your computer and give it to your teacher.
Launch the Ava software. By default, a floating banner session is launched.
5. Click on the four arrows to display the settings:
6. In the left-hand menu, select your Bluetooth microphone as the microphone. This will transcribe what your teacher says.
With this simple setting, Ava captures your teacher's voice and you benefit from live transcription on your computer.
You can adjust the font size, choose light or dark mode and switch to floating banner mode by clicking on the "CC" button. Read this article to find out more.
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
Download and install Ava by clicking here.
Log in using the method you chose when registering (Google, Mail, Phone, Facebook, Apple)
Launch the Ava software. By default, a floating banner session is launched.
4. Click on the four arrows to display the settings:
5. In the left-hand menu, select "Ava Mic" as microphone. This will transcribe the sound from your PC:
For Zoom, Teams & Google Meet users: we recommend that you use Ava Connect, for greater ease and accuracy.
*only available on computer (Ava CC or Ava Web)
If you can't use Ava Connect, then follow the instructions by clicking here.
And there you have it: your online course is transcribed live by Ava, which directly captures all the audio from your videoconference without any manipulation for your teacher or the other students.
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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