ASR and Speech-to-Text

Doctor in clinic explaining results to family using auto generated captions on a tablet

The use of ASR (automatic speech recognition) to convert speech to text is everywhere. It can be a very useful accessibility tool for people with hearing loss, enabling captioning on demand for live, face-to-face conversations, remote meetings, telephone conversations, media, and more.

How do ASR-generated captions, especially with the use of AI-based techniques, compare to human-generated captions? Even more fundamental is how do we measure caption performance? These and other topics are open for discussion in the ASR and Speech-to-Text group. 

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#WhatDoYouThink: Should captioned content online tell you how the captions were generated?

With advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and an increased focus on accessibility, the adoption of automatically generated captions for online video content has increased. We don’t know how much content has automated captions. However, we do know major video hosting platforms, such as YouTube, and social media platforms, such as Facebook, have widely adopted automated captioning technologies.…

Recorded Events/Videos

Vox Video: We're already using AI more than we realize

This Vox YouTube-channel, captioned video describes how we're already using more artificial intelligence (AI) than we realize. AI is hiding in plain sight including in hearing and communication access technologies. Be sure to read the cover article, AI and Other Hearing Technology Advancements , in the Spring 2024 edition of HLAAs Hearing Life Magazine.

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What control features would you like to have for auto-generated captions on Internet video?

Did you know that there are keyboard shortcuts for adjusting YouTube captions and that you can reposition where auto-generated captions are displayed on a YouTube video? For YouTube auto-generated captions, you can: Use your C key to turn captions on or off. Use the + (plus) key to increase the size of the captions. Use the – (minus) key to decrease the size of the captions. Use your mouse to drag…

News releases

Apple introduces transcripts for Apple Podcasts

Apple has introduced transcripts for Apple Podcasts. Transcripts will be available for new episodes shortly after episodes are published. These transcripts are automatically generated by Apple, and you will see the words "Automatically generated" in the app display. When the content creator provides a transcript instead of using Apple's automatically generated transcript, the app will display the…

Articles/Blog posts

Lost in Transcription

Consumer Reports in cooperation with Northeastern University and Pomona College looked at the performance of auto-captions on seven videoconferencing and social media platforms.