Videoconferencing Auto-Captions

Multitudes of people have pivoted since spring 2020 pushed us all into video-calling with family, friends and colleagues, on the fly.

Live Captions Keep You Connected

Meryl Evans, a marketer who wears cochlear implants, wrote, “The Best Automatic Captioning Tool For Videocalls“

Literally, the tech firms are innovating videocall platforms at speed to stay relevant, as Meryl’s continually-updated piece shows.

Updated: Which Is the Best Automatic Captioning Tool for Video Calls? https://t.co/zkMVRhngCw

Added a 6th best practice for live captioning of video calls:

1. Readability
2. Caption placement
3. Accuracy
4. Synchronized
5. Flow***
6. Transcript#Captioned #a11y #accessibility pic.twitter.com/tgEoXLYvqi

— Meryl Evans, speaker on captions & deafness (@merylkevans) April 30, 2020

Audiologist Tina Childress tracks captioning options for Zoom, in a dynamic document with very helpful technical detail.

Using Zoom for work or school? Educational Audiology Association member Tina Gonzales Childress has compiled a thorough list of captioning options for Zoom. pic.twitter.com/8mqodiuCX4

— Melissa Karp (@MKarp_AuD) August 14, 2020

A deaf person’s experience with Zoom

Quinn Keast, a product designer who’s deaf, wrote about using Zoom calls with his distributed team of work colleagues. TL;dr = everybody’s communication style improved. No surprise.

Inclusive Design Boosts Businesses

Bruno Perez, a UX designer whose son wears a cochlear implant, uncovers invisible benefits of universal design in a piece, “The Hidden Value of Inclusive Design in Business and Innovation“.

Just think, if hearing accessibility was built into products and services at the outset. Millions of people wouldn’t lose words in transit when accessing a speaking world, even if developers and engineers scramble to retrofit their platforms and services in haste.