Re: Draft issue on saving transcripts

Hi JaEun,

I don't know anyone at Zoom, but I've put in a feature request at

https://zoom.us/Feed.

Maybe if a bunch of us request it, it would help.

Cheers,

Kim



On 2/23/2023 5:06 PM, Ku, JaEun Jemma wrote:
>
> Kim,
>
> This is the exact reason I raised the issue to the group. Currently we 
> cannot copy and paste from the transcript at all.
>
> “I'm still thinking that the most practical way to use automatic 
> transcription may just be to make it available in a way that the 
> scribe can easily consult and maybe cut-and-paste from during 
> scribing. Seems like this would make scribing easier.”
>
> Best,
>
> **
>
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> *From: *Kim Patch <kim@scriven.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, February 23, 2023 1:35 PM
> *To: *Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>, WAI Coordination Call 
> <public-wai-cc@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Re: Draft issue on saving transcripts
>
> Punctuation, separating speakers and paragraphing are all difficult to 
> do automatically, and of course there will be the occasional or not so 
> occasional wrong word, even with systems that allow users to add a 
> list of acronyms and common words.
>
> This is one reason it takes more time than people realize to correct 
> automatic transcription.
>
> I'm still thinking that the most practical way to use automatic 
> transcription may just be to make it available in a way that the 
> scribe can easily consult and maybe cut-and-paste from during 
> scribing. Seems like this would make scribing easier.
>
> Having said all that…
>
> I think there is a way to improve one aspect of automatic 
> transcription – it would be possible to sidestep the separating 
> speakers issue on a zoom call, in theory anyway, because we are all 
> coming in on different lines.
>
> Cheers,
> Kim
>
> On 2/23/2023 12:52 PM, Alastair Campbell wrote:
>
>     I did a quick test by piping some meeting audio into Word, the
>     issues were:
>
>      1. It’s designed as a dictation tool, so although it worked, it
>         all comes out in one block of text.
>
>          1. There’s no attempt at punctuation, let alone separating
>             speakers.
>
>      2. You can’t do anything else whilst it is transcribing, if you
>         click onto another window it stops.
>      3. You can’t move the cursor to go back and edit live as it just
>         starts putting the transcription there.
>
>     Those issues rule it out as something a chair could do whilst
>     managing a meeting, and I don’t think it’s fair to pick on one
>     person to be scribe every week (or get people to install software
>     for this).
>
>     The Google equivalent may be available to a paid subscriber (it
>     isn’t on my account), it might be somewhat better?
>
>     As a replacement for scribing I think it would need to:
>
>      4. Be live editable.
>      5. Differentiate speakers (at least start a new paragraph with
>         each speaker).
>      6. Either
>
>          1. Be run by a chair, and then any volunteer scribe can
>             live-edit, or
>          2. be run by anyone without an installation / license.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     -Alastair
>
>     *From: *Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
>     <mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com>
>     *Date: *Thursday, 23 February 2023 at 15:04
>     *To: *Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com>
>     <mailto:maryjom@us.ibm.com>, Reid, Wendy <wendy.reid@rakuten.com>
>     <mailto:wendy.reid@rakuten.com>, Katie Haritos-Shea
>     <ryladog@gmail.com> <mailto:ryladog@gmail.com>, kim@scriven.com
>     <kim@scriven.com> <mailto:kim@scriven.com>
>     *Cc: *Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> <mailto:cooper@w3.org>, WAI
>     Coordination Call <public-wai-cc@w3.org> <mailto:public-wai-cc@w3.org>
>     *Subject: *Re: Draft issue on saving transcripts
>
>     I think we’d need a tool that pipes the automated transcript into
>     an editable document, but I’m not sure if such a thing exists?
>
>     I think Google docs has a “Voice typing” feature, perhaps combined
>     with something like Loopback
>     <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frogueamoeba.com%2Floopback%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cjku%40uic.edu%7C6b177e7d4dbb49c3755808db15d5250a%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638127777435201457%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=bgluG7oA0oIHPQOuc4YemTGMPLq3TDnws9VZhWtGo1Y%3D&reserved=0>?
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>     -Alastair
>
>     *From: *Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com>
>     <mailto:maryjom@us.ibm.com>
>     *Date: *Thursday, 23 February 2023 at 14:31
>     *To: *Reid, Wendy <wendy.reid@rakuten.com>
>     <mailto:wendy.reid@rakuten.com>, Katie Haritos-Shea
>     <ryladog@gmail.com> <mailto:ryladog@gmail.com>, kim@scriven.com
>     <kim@scriven.com> <mailto:kim@scriven.com>
>     *Cc: *Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> <mailto:cooper@w3.org>, WAI
>     Coordination Call <public-wai-cc@w3.org> <mailto:public-wai-cc@w3.org>
>     *Subject: *Re: Draft issue on saving transcripts
>
>     There is no on-the-fly editing capabilities in Zoom or other
>     meeting software. There would have to be someone that watches the
>     transcript and takes note of errors along the way and then the
>     corrections would have to be incorporated in post-meeting editing
>     of the transcript.
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Mary Jo Mueller
>
>     IBM Accessibility Standards Program Manager
>
>     *From: *Reid, Wendy <wendy.reid@rakuten.com>
>     <mailto:wendy.reid@rakuten.com>
>     *Date: *Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 9:28 AM
>     *To: *Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@gmail.com>
>     <mailto:ryladog@gmail.com>, kim@scriven.com <kim@scriven.com>
>     <mailto:kim@scriven.com>
>     *Cc: *Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> <mailto:cooper@w3.org>, WAI
>     Coordination Call <public-wai-cc@w3.org> <mailto:public-wai-cc@w3.org>
>     *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] Re: Draft issue on saving transcripts
>
>     I’ve been pondering this issue as well, since even though the auto
>     transcript has its drawbacks, it has reached the point where it’s
>     possible to either detect the patterns of issues or work around
>     them. I think scribing is still important,
>
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>     I’ve been pondering this issue as well, since even though the auto
>     transcript has its drawbacks, it has reached the point where it’s
>     possible to either detect the patterns of issues or work around them.
>
>     I think scribing is still important, it can be good to have a way
>     to cut out comments or things that don’t need to be in the meeting
>     record (chatter, etc.). I wonder if there is a way in Zoom or
>     another application for there to be transcript editing on the fly,
>     kind of a hybrid transcript-scribe situation. Someone would
>     “scribe” the meeting, but their job would be to correct and edit
>     the transcript on the fly.
>
>     Does anyone know if that’s possible?
>
>     -Wendy
>
>     *From: *Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@gmail.com>
>     <mailto:ryladog@gmail.com>
>     *Date: *Monday, February 20, 2023 at 7:31 PM
>     *To: *kim@scriven.com <kim@scriven.com> <mailto:kim@scriven.com>
>     *Cc: *Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> <mailto:cooper@w3.org>, WAI
>     Coordination Call <public-wai-cc@w3.org> <mailto:public-wai-cc@w3.org>
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>     Good point Kim!
>
>     On Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 1:06 PM Kim Patch <kim@scriven.com> wrote:
>
>         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
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>                     I found the content in the Guide that we would
>                     ultimately want updated:
>                     https://www.w3.org/Guide/meetings/transcripts.html
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>                     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
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>                     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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