The Liberated Learning Intiative, centered at St. Mary's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, uses automatic speech recognition software, processing speech directly from a microphone worn by the class instructor, to provide speech-to-text services to students.  Here are the steps of the process:

1)  Professors develop a personalized voice model by teaching speech recognition  software (ViaVoice) to

 understand their individual speaking  style.

2) Professors use a wireless microphone connected to a robust computer  system during lectures.

3) Specially designed classroom speech recognition (SR) - IBM NetScribe 

software works with IBM’s ViaVoice to convert the spoken lecture into  electronic text.

4) Text is displayed via projector for class in real time - students can  simultaneously see and hear the

lecture as it is delivered.

5)  After class, comprehensive, speech recognition generated notes are available to students on-line