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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by dylan604 on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:49PM (#24947207)
The first time I was invited into a Google Meet conference, the captions were on by default. I was impressed at how well it was doing in real time. I've seen closed captions with hired human operators during live events that didn't do as well as what I was seeing. Watching the captions disappear as the backspace was used to make a correction has always made live captions so human to me.
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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by ZeteticElench on Saturday October 31, 2020 @01:00AM (#24949232)
I think Google has the best speech to text technology in the world right now.
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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by nojvek on Saturday October 31, 2020 @01:44AM (#24949391)
It’s anecdotal but Google probably has a ton of speech to text data from YouTube captions and such. Their hangouts captioning was phenomenal. I have full hearing but I still switch it on. It’s really good.
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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by sebmellen on Saturday October 31, 2020 @03:50AM (#24949778)
Don't forget that their CAPTCHAs for the visually impaired use YouTube audio, so they're building a very accurate, human-trained closed-captioning library.
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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by anticensor on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:07AM (#24949991)
But it assumes single language and miserably fails on mixed language content.
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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by spacemanmatt on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:23AM (#24950034)
Including technical dialect English
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