Scopist: Building a Skill Ladder into Crowd Transcription
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Kristin Williams, Nila Banerjee, John Zimmerman · 2017 · Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)
This paper introduces Scopist, a JavaScript application designed to teach crowd workers stenotype — a chording-based text entry method used by professional real-time captioners — while they perform audio transcription microtasks. The research addresses a fundamental problem in…
crowdsourcing · captioning · stenography · deaf accessibility · transcription