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5 Ways AI Assistive Technology Tools Can Help Students (Tech & Learning)

The impact AI can have on assisted technology is hard to overstate.

At the start of the pandemic, every time Gillian Hayes, dean of the Graduate Division at University of California, Irvine, made a formal presentation, she would need to hire a transcriber to write captions in real-time in addition to an ASL interpreter.

Now, she no longer needs a caption writer and can instead rely on AI assistive technology speech-to-text tools such as those available through Zoom, Google Meet, or Otter.ai.

“The improvements in automated captions is astonishing,” says Hayes, who co-leads The Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem (CERES) and researches tech accessibility.

Read the full story in Tech & Learning.