• threelonmusketeers
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    4 months ago

    True, but computer generated captions aren’t perfect, and having a way for viewers to make corrections would be useful.

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      4 months ago

      Also true. There’s a lot of enthusiasm in the Fediverse about writing alt texts, so who knows! It’s a lot more work, but similar ballpark.

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        4 months ago

        I feel like Cunningham’s law can be leveraged here. If someone spots a mistake in a computer generated caption and there is an option to correct it, someone will correct it!

        Any corrections could also be used to train (hopefully open source) speech-to-text software.

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          Yeah, having an option to suggest corrections to captions would probably be much more popular than actually writing them from scratch. I doubt it will be high on the list of priorities, but it would be a neat feature for sure.