Scribe4Me was a mobile sound transcription tool for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Users could press a button to send the last 30 seconds of audio to a remote worker who would use a desktop interface to write and send back a transcription.
The tool was actually just an extension of Momento, a prototyping platform I built while at Berkeley. Momento included a configurable mobile tool that could capture multimedia and sensor data, and a desktop tool that allowed remote workers to view and respond to incoming data from participants. I built two versions of the Momento mobile tool, one in J2ME and one (pictured here) in C# CF for Windows Mobile. The desktop tool I built in Java.
The Momento platform supported a variety of methods to send data to participants in the field. In this application, the participant received the transcription as a text message.
Tara Matthews ran an extensive study of Scribe4Me in the field.