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Re:Show HN: Add video subtitles on the fly from plain text by TuringNYC on Monday August 03, 2020 @11:43AM (#24039153)
About two years UC Berkeley was forced to take down most of their university lecture videos which were available freely and publicly due to some regulation around closed captioning availability. Presumably the cost to providing the closed captioning was considered too high. I wonder if some software and/or service provider could help get those videos back up.
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Re:Show HN: Add video subtitles on the fly from plain text by ladberg on Monday August 03, 2020 @03:10PM (#24042025)
I just went back to some of my Berkeley course captures and the few that I checked out had captions that looked human-generated (unless YouTube's auto-generation can handle math terminology and abbreviations fine). It's a shame that they can't release those ones publicly due to some weird legal reasons.
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Re:Show HN: Add video subtitles on the fly from plain text by TuringNYC on Monday August 03, 2020 @05:58PM (#24043954)
IIRC the regulation was meant in good spirit (to ensure the hard-of-hearing had equal access to university produced artifacts), but effectively it caused a lot of loss.
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