- From: Kim Patch <kim@scriven.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:06:39 -0500
- To: Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@gmail.com>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
- Cc: WAI Coordination Call <public-wai-cc@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <3292f382-7369-2944-1223-63894eb2d122@scriven.com>
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. >> -- ______________________________________ Kimberly Patch (617) 325-3966 patchontech.com @patchontech scriven.com/kimpatch ______________________________________
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