Groups related to Captioning
Articles/Blog posts
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Consumer Reports in cooperation with Northeastern University and Pomona College looked at the performance of auto-captions on seven videoconferencing and social media platforms.
Event
Podcast Accessibility: A Legal Analysis on the Future of Podcasting with Lainey Feingold
In this webinar, Lainey Feingold goes through legal issues impacting podcasts, primarily in the United States. She will also share best practices for podcast accessibility and tips for staying ahead of the legal curve on this issue.
Recorded Events/Videos
ASR Captioning: Better than Nothing... or is it?
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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.
News releases
Twitter announces auto-generated captions for voice tweets on iOS
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Twitter Support announced in July (2021), "Now when you record a voice Tweet, captions will automatically generate and appear. To view the captions on web, click the “CC” button."