Re:Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people
by KittenInABox on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:34AM
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I also prefer google meets, specifically because its live transcription imo beats out zoom's. This is useful/important for people that can have disabilities which involve speech processing. (eg. I know of people with ADHD or autism who would need to request something be repeated simply because the brain didn't process the sounds as speech the first time or something similar, when this isn't a problem when reading text.)
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Re:Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people
by QuercusMax on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:37AM
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I find that the live captions also help me when I'm tired or distracted; and sometimes it does a better job that I do of decoding thick accents.
Re:Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people
by mediaman on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:50AM
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Interesting. I wonder if this is a problem for some people in-person, as well, or if the video specifically causes the speech to not get processed right the first time around.
If it's a problem in both environments I could see remote work with closed captioning being a big benefit for people with certain types of neurodivergence.
Re:Peloton replaces CEO and lays off 2,800 people
by Ancapistani on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @12:31PM
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It’s definitely a problem in person.
It’s a bit easier to resolve because there’s more context/body language available, but I still often ask people to repeat themselves. Sometimes overtly, sometimes by restating the portion of what they said that I understood and prodding them to elaborate so I can implicitly fill in the missing pieces.