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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ASR Captioning: Better than Nothing... or is it?

At the 2021 TDI conference this summer, Larry Goldberg of Yahoo Media gave a plenary talk titled "ASR Captioning: Better than Nothing... or is it?" The video of this session can be found on YouTube at the link below and has sign language interpretation and embedded CART captioning. You can also turn on auto-generated captions in English for comparison.