Voice recognition software package

Tender description

The University of Southampton is currently exploring a range of options to meet its need for automated subtitling of lecture video recordings. The University is keen to explore all options that may be currently available in the marketplace. The University high level requirements for the solution(s) are detailed at Section II.2.4. Interested parties are invited to complete and return the Questionnaire, deadline for the receipt of completed Questionnaires is 26.6.2017 (12:00 noon). Responses received as part of this exercise shall be used to help shape the University's final specification of system requirements and scope any resulting procurement process. Please Note: This soft market exercise is intended to allow interested organisations with appropriate experience to outline their views and provide impartial information to the University with no commitment to themselves or the University. This is not a call for competition at this stage. The University of Southampton is currently exploring a range of options to meet its need for automated subtitling of lecture video recordings. The University is keen to explore all options that may be currently available in the marketplace. Students use videos of lectures to revisit taught content. Some groups of students benefit from subtitles on videos, especially those with additional learning needs or with English as an additional language (EAL). Lectures are recorded using Panopto. The University is conducting soft market testing for an automated subtitling system for lecture video recordings that must include the following: — A high degree of transcription accuracy in real-world scenarios (including a range of acoustics, voices, accents and background noise). — A pricing model that defines the University's costs. — A operational and/or support model that reduces the costs to the University. — Ability to cope with ~55k lecture recordings per annum, with a processing time limited to 12 hours per recording. — Ability to cope service approximately ~1m hours of video per annum (or integration with existing services that provide this) and scalable to support future growth beyond this. — Ability to integrate with existing University services to give an excellent student experience (e.g. Blackboard, Panopto, Banner etc.).