Live Remote Captioning
Live remote captioning allows listeners who are deaf or hard of hearing to access captions of speech in real time.
Radio Lapel Microphone
- Turn on the microphone. It should display ‘14’
- Replace the batteries if required. They should last a few hours.
- Set the microphone mode to ‘mic’
- Give the microphone to the speaker and explain that it is to help deaf users. This might encourage them to fit it closer to their mouth and speak a bit more clearly.
Radio Receiver
- Plugin in the power
- Check that the Shure receiver is on channel ‘14’
- Push down reset for a few seconds
- Login to the captioning provider’s web site
- There is a chat facility. Let the stenographer know that you are ready to go by typing in, “We are ready for you to dial in.”
- The stenographer will attempt to dial in
- If the stenographers call goes to the message bank by mistake you will need to reset
- Once a successful telephone connection is made, the ‘IN USE’ light flashes red.
- If there is a big problem disconnect the power and try powering up again. This will reboot the system
Accessing the Captions
- Login to the captioning provider’s web site
- The session is not accessible until 15 minutes before the session starts.
- Clicking ‘Review’ will allow you to enter a chat session with the captioner
Displaying Captions on a Lecture Theatre Screen
- Most lecture theatres at University of Melbourne support dual screen
- Plug in the laptop and select it on the lecture theatres AV panel
- Login to the captioning provider’s web site
- The session is not accessible until 15 minutes before the session starts.
- Clicking ‘Review’ will allow you to enter a chat session with the captioner
- Once you have changed the settings once, it should stay like that for the rest of the sessions throughout the day.
- For big rooms, the ‘Large’ and ‘Night time’ settings are the best. If you select’ Full Screen’ at the bottom, the chat window will not be displayed.
- Set your browser to full screen
- F11 (PC)
- Shift + Command + F (MAC)
- Make sure that the computer power saving is turned off so that the screen remains illuminated
- Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options > Change when the computer sleeps. Set options to ‘Never’ (PC)
- System Preferences > Energy Saver. Set options to ‘Never’ (MAC)