Delhi Online Education DOECAST

I retweeted a post today that went like this: “@rosslarocco,@gfriese: 3 ideas to create #eLearning content with #GoogleVoice, http://ow.ly/hFR7 easy audio recording 4 faculty!” After visiting that page it hit me that the text transcription of the voicemails in GoogleVoice could have some implications for section 508 compliance in online courses. Basically, by using GV to record audio you will also automatically get a text transcription of the audio. Although you won’t have the highest quality of audio, as we’ve seen over the last decade or so, great content overcomes diminished production values. Also, the text transcription won’t be perfect, but after touching it up, you will have at least had a super easy way to record and embed audio into your course, as well as a head start in transcribing the text for the audio.

So here goes:

And here’s the text, which I can retrieve from either the email GV generates or logging into GV itself:

Hey,  this is Clark. This little mini lecture is about how you can use your google voice number to leave yourself a voicemail and then you can embed that into your course has an audio file. So you could use it for recording, say, a little mini-lecture or an announcement for students for which want audio and so on. And then once I’m done, of course google voice is also going to transcode or make a transcription of that voicemail into text which means that I can take that text and I can touch it up, because I’m sure there’ll be a few errors in there, or you know here or there. But I can touch that up and then I can, you know, use that text transcription to make this audio more section 508 compliant by including the text transcription of the audio file in my course as well. So I’ve got an easy way to call in by phone, basically, or on the computer as I’m doing and make an audio recording that I can… it’ll give me an MP3 of that recording it’ll make make it so that I can embed that recording into an activity or discussion forum in my Moodle course, for example. And it will also transcribe it in the text so it’s kind of a multifaceted easy way of doing audio for an online course and helping you along the way of getting a text transcription for that audio as well.  So I think that is pretty cool and, have a great day, thanks.