Captions Everywhere

Useful to see capabilities listed.

Why Captions Are Suddenly Everywhere and How They Got There

By Associated Press, June 30, 2022

Captions are becoming more widely available to people with hearing loss using videoconferencing platforms, streaming services, social media video, and smartphone apps. Apps like Google's Live Transcribe and Otto can be used to transcribe business meetings, while InnoCaption is used for transcribing phone calls and GalaPro for captioning live theater performances.

Captions are considered more accessible and less expensive than hearing aids and cochlear implants, which require the brain to interpret sound in a new way.

Apps like Otter and Live Transcribe use automatic speech recognition, which is based on artificial intelligence, for transcription.

Despite improvements in the technology, there can be lags in transcription, issues related to weak Wi-Fi signals, and challenges posed by jargon and slang. There also are concerns that transcriptions could be less accurate for the voices of women, people of color, and deaf people due to biases built into the technology.

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Otter Transcribes Zoom Meetings, It Also Needs to Augment Them

Now take it further.  Who has agreed to do what?     Wat input did we not get?  What resources and especially data do they need?  Has the meeting met pre-stated goals?  ...

This tool automatically transcribes your Zoom meetings as they happen     Otter.ai’s new feature can be launched directly from a call

By Jon Porter@JonPorty  in Theverge

Automated transcription service Otter.ai now integrates directly into Zoom calls to transcribe meetings on the fly. During a meeting, anyone on the call can click the “Otter.ai Live Transcript” button within their Zoom window to open up the Live Video Meeting Notes on Otter.ai’s site, and participants can then annotate them on the fly. Otter.ai quietly announced the new feature in a blog post earlier this month.  .... "

Google Creates Transcribe

Had seen and noted this before, likely quite helpful for business applications.  I remember noting its need to be embedded in the enterprise Looking forward to see it on Assistant and  IOS Devices.

Google Translate launches Transcribe for Android in 8 languages   By Khari Johnson

Google Translate today launched Transcribe for Android, a feature that delivers a continual, real-time translation of a conversation. Transcribe will begin by rolling out support for 8 languages in the coming days: English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai. With Transcribe, Translate is now capable of translating classroom or conference lectures with no time limits, whereas before speech-to-text AI in Translate lasted no longer than a word, phrase, or sentence. Google plans to bring Transcribe to iOS devices at an unspecified date in the future. ..... "