Thanks for the response.
Funnily enough I did wonder whether there were likely to be problems due to regional accents (including Scottish as well as my Scouse accent). The initial reports from the US commented that “US President Obama’s weekly address to the nation: works pretty nice“.
Any posh people from down south with RP accents have any experiences ? :-)
More seriously I do wonder whether the service is tuned to American English and if English English transcriptions might get better.
Brian
PS On the subject of US-UK differences, the auto-correct on my email client doesn't like the word 'scouse' and suggests I mean 'spouse'!
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From: Bell, David [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 10 March 2011 10:07
To: 'Brian Kelly'
Subject: RE: Automated captioning of videos and BS 8878
Hi Brian
My experience of captioning on YouTube is that it doesn't work too well. The text and audio very quickly go out of sync descending into the captions being meaningless.
David
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From: Managing institutional Web services [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Kelly
Sent: 10 March 2011 09:49
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Subject: Automated captioning of videos and BS 8878
Over a year ago there was a discussion on this list about "Accessibility of videos on HE websites" - see
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=WEBSITE-INFO-MGT;8fbd063f.100
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There were also some suggestions that all videos MUST be captioned (possibly for legal reasons?). However the BS 8878 Code of Practice on Web Accessibility (which was published in December 2010) is very much based on achievable and pragmatic solutions - and failing to provide video materials could itself be a barrier to people with disabilities. Also note that at the recent CETIS Accessibility SIG meeting I was told by Shadi Abou-Zahra of WAI that WAI simply provide the technical guidelines - they do NOT expect WAI guidelines to be necessarily implemented in all cases.
I have started to look at tools for automated captioning and in particular YouTube. I've given my thoughts in a post at:
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/when-technology-eventually-enhanc
es-accessibility/
Of course automated captioning and in some case may not be usable - but sometimes it does work and it is likely to improve.
I'm interested (a) if anyone is making use of this service and (b) what accessibilities policies institutions may have on providing access to videos
- in particular is anyone making use of BS 8878.
Thanjks
Brian
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