Re: Draft issue on saving transcripts

A couple of thoughts on auto transcriptions.
I think they are useful, used wisely.
There will be mistakes, and consequential mistakes like can for can't 
are still all too common (I've done a lot of testing over the past decade)
I think the best use is to make it available during the call to help 
scribing so the scribe can look back or even cut-and-paste chunks.
It is tedious to clean up a transcription.
If a transcription is saved the audio should be saved with it.

Cheers,
Kim

On 2/20/2023 12:53 PM, Katie Haritos-Shea wrote:
> +1 it is a good idea. And help many users
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 12:22 PM Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> wrote:
>
>     Hi - we chatted about this a bit during the WAI CC call today.
>     I'll give a couple days for people to review on list, and will
>     file the issue Wednesday if there are no objections. Michael
>
>     On 2023-02-20 9:25 a.m., Michael Cooper wrote:
>>
>>     Following up on the discussion of saving transcriptions:
>>     https://www.w3.org/2023/02/13-waicc-minutes#t04
>>
>>     I found the content in the Guide that we would ultimately want
>>     updated: https://www.w3.org/Guide/meetings/transcripts.html. It
>>     mentions some reasons not to allow saving that we would need to
>>     address. For now, this draft issue is meant to open discussion
>>     without having the full solution.
>>
>>     ===
>>
>>     @a11ydoer raised a question that we discussed in the WAI
>>     coordination call, about the meeting transcript saving policy.
>>     The Guide <https://www.w3.org/Guide/meetings/transcripts.html>
>>     instructs staff to disallow transcript saving, for important
>>     reasons. But we now have some experience with the feature, and in
>>     most of my groups it has become routine to turn on
>>     auto-transcription as an accessibility and language support.
>>     While transcripts have errors, they are generally understandable.
>>     Groups have begun to wonder if scribing should be a priority,
>>     especially given the participation cost to the scribe in a given
>>     meeting. Therefore, we would like to explore incorporating
>>     current experience into the transcript saving policy.
>>
>>     I believe many of the concerns we have with saving transcripts
>>     could be addressed with policy and guidance. I believe it is
>>     still inappropriate to use automated transcripts as a formal
>>     meeting record, but I think it is appropriate to allow them to
>>     supplement the official record.
>>
>>     There are also social concerns about the use of saved
>>     transcripts. While we can't know what would happen in an untried
>>     experiment, our social experience with live captioning has been
>>     encouraging. People are used to it, and I think the step to
>>     saving transcripts is less of a leap than it was.
>>
>>     We look forward to discussing an appropriate way to make use of
>>     this new technology.
>>

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