Crowd caption correction (CCC)

Captions can be found in a variety of media, including television programs, movies, webinars and telecollaboration meetings. Although very helpful, captions sometimes have errors, such as misinterpretations of what was said, missing words and misspellings of technical terms and proper names. Due to the labor intensive nature of captioning, caption providers may not have the time or in some cases, the background knowledge of meeting content, that would be needed to correct errors in the captions. The Crowd Caption Correction (CCC) feature (and service) addresses this issue by allowing meeting participants or third party individuals to make corrections to captions in realtime during a meeting. Additionally, the feature also uses the captions to create a transcript of all captions broadcast during the meeting, which users can save and reference both during the meeting and at a later date. The feature will be available as a part of the Open Access Tool Tray System (OATTS) suite of open source widgets developed under the University of Wisconsin-Madison Trace Center Telecommunications RERC. The OATTS suite is designed to increase access to information during telecollaboration for individuals with a variety of disabilities.