Helping the Differently-Abled With Transcription

Copyright (c) 2010 Ajay Prasad

Transcription is the service of converting speech into an electronic or written format. These services are used mainly for legal, medical, and business purposes. The common practice in this business is to transcribe the speech into a file on computer to print as a text file document.

The transcription service is used to help the differently-abled people especially students. Differently-abled students count on technology to assist them in improving their educational level. One such technology is the voice transcription software. Earlier, these students had problems in expressing their ideas, questions and thoughts in the class and had to be content with the notes of their fellow classmates. Many differently-abled students had to skip some classes due to medical limitations. The Natural Language Processing advancement assists them to raise their class performance levels and live their dreams with the help of the technology of speech recognition.

Through the Natural Language Processing (NLP), human input is fed into a computer, which then manipulates the program. NLP requires a large database and it can serve information based on the commands either voiced or typed. The software can be customized to distinguish certain texts and words in a desired indent.

The voice transcription software makes use of the technology of speech recognition to process the fed speech or material. The differently-abled students can make use of this software for two major purposes. Firstly, the students can record the lecture in the classroom and use the recording later for assignments, homework and studying and secondly, students who have restricted movement of hand and have difficulty writing their assignments and examinations can use the speech recognition technology.

This software helps the differently-abled students in classroom study by helping them take notes, prepare for tests and term papers and communicate during the lecture.

The transcription service that caters to majorly to the fields of medical, law, business and education help differently-abled people by providing them to work from home. Working from home is the most preferred form of work by people who are differently-abled. Medical transcription is the most preferred option in such cases.

This job has certain initial demands such as training for the job, finding the job but once the person has crossed the initial levels, the job of medical transcription is pretty much of a comfort. The job requires looks into certain factors but for a differently-abled person, the factors just extend a little more. Their ability to work, the impact of their disability on their work performance and their ability to work in minimum or no supervision are matters of huge concern.

Many differently-abled people require special software to carry out their jobs without any hindrance. Voice recognition software is a great help here for those whose disability bars them from typing. The technology is getting more and more common these days, as the job requires a lot of training including getting oneself acquainted with the medical terminology, transcription skills and format process. There are online training programs for the differently-abled to learn at their own pace.