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Re: SC 1.2.2 and YouTube's auto captions

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From: Alastair Campbell
Date: Jul 7, 2017 7:41AM

Taking the wholistic view, I'd point out that auto-captions should be seen
as a helpful start on the process, not the finished product.

It used to be a complete pain in the proverbial to type out captions, put
them in XML, work out the timings etc.
I avoided it whenever possible, usually by avoiding doing video.

If you use youtube, you can login and update the caption text very easily,
this makes a huge difference overall. There are other services and methods,
but the room for excuses is getting smaller and smaller.

Cheers,

-Alastair