Transcriptions (Re: Hearing and Speaking Problems for Non-Native Englishspeakingparticipants.)

[Colin Perkins]

--> Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu> writes:
> > It's worth noting that meeting audio/video for working groups meeting
> > in MBONE-equipped rooms has been available for playback for a number
> > of years, and I don't know that I've noticed any difference in
> > behavior between MBONE sessions and non-MBONE sessions. 
> 
> During the brief time I was a WG chair I used to specifically request
> non-MBONE rooms because I found it disruptive to force people to
> queue at the microphone.  Of course, this was for a relatively small
> group.  Once you have a few hundred people in the room you have to have
> some access control mechanism - if not a microphone, then some other
> sort of talking stick, recognition by the chair, etc.

We actually do the opposite: request a room with multicast, so we can tap
into the feed and record the meeting. I've found it to be very helpful in
writing the minutes. Of course, this was for a group which was big enough
to need room microphones anyway... 

Colin