Over the last several days, many people on Twitter posted links to what appear to be interesting videos. Unfortunately, none of these videos were captionned. I am "only" hard of hearing and mostly have no big issues functioning. But phone calls and online videos are two occurences of giving me a really hard time. Hard to subtitle or caption phone calls. Not so hard to caption videos – if the system you use allows it.
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How I Will Caption My Videos
I’ve been needing to caption some videos for a while now. It was not urgent so I delayed a bit. But it is now becoming imperative to be able to caption videos before they are available. My experiments were somewhat frustrating, but I think I finally got it right!
Google & YouTube to Offer Automatic Video Captioning
I just read that Google will soon be providing automatic captioning of videos on Youtube. That is one of the most significant event for web accessibility in a LONG time. I am very happy to hear that. It will be good for me, and good for many other people as well