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Re: The job of captioning

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From: Karen Mardahl
Date: Nov 18, 2010 7:36AM

Hi Cindy

No audio. I only blabbed when I presented. :)

regards, Karen

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Poore-Pariseau, Cindy <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Thanks Karen. Does the presentation include audio? (I turned my speaker on
> didn't hear anything, but wanted to check)
>
> Cindy Poore-Pariseau
> Disability Specialist
> Bristol Community College
> 508-678-2811
> x 2470, B115
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [WebAIM] The job of captioning
>
> I'm intrigued by tweets coming out of Accessing Higher Ground about getting
> the captioning job done.
>
> Jared Smith tweeted: Purdue University finds that using/fixing YouTube
> automatic captioning costs more than using an external captioning vendor.
>
> Then he followed up with: To clarify last tweet, YouTube was more expensive
> for transcription. It would obviously be cheaper for simple time-coding.
> Vendor was AST.
>
> When reading these tweets, I'm guessing they tried the auto-caption to
> generate a file with text and time codes. Is that what happened? Yes,
> having
> a horrible manuscript to clean up would be messy and starting from scratch
> might be far easier.
>
> Lately, I've argued that people could use YouTube to transform a transcript
> into captions. I describe the process in a SlideShare presentation at
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/kmardahl/technical-communication-and-inclusion-5347819
> (You must turn off JavaScript to view my crucial notes or download the
> slides.)
>
> My target audience was technical communicators who seem to be jumping on
> the
> video bandwagon thinking "text manuals are dead and everyone wants their
> instructions in a video". I try to point out that captioning is a
> must-have,
> and it is so easy to do when you have a transcript. I also feel that anyone
> making a video for instructions must have made a storyboard and therefore
> do
> have a ready-made transcript. Few people should have to sit down and type
> out an entire video. I won't comment on people who say "my video is
> irrelevant for deaf people".
>
> Interviews ("talking heads") will require work - there is rarely a
> transcript available for that. I am not sure how to tackle Vimeo videos.
> They seem to be a walled garden of some kind. People should definitely
> consider professional vendors of captioning and audio description services.
> My arguments are to not ignore the easy tasks. Short videos uploaded to
> YouTube? There really is no excuse for not captioning. Lack of captions is
> unprofessional in my book now. (Next major to-learn task is audio
> descriptions!)
>
> regards, Karen Mardahl
>
> http://twitter.com/stcaccess
> &
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>