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From: glen walker
Date: Apr 7, 2020 2:56PM

There's good info on transcripts at
https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/transcripts/

There's a note about automatic captioning on the previous webpage at
https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/captions/#automatic-captions-are-not-sufficient

In general, you want exactly what is spoken, who the speak is (if known)
and when a change of speakers occurs.
If the recording is a meeting that has a q&a session, you'd want to record
the question (perhaps noting that it's from an attendee since you probably
don't have a name) and then who answers the question.

Having other indicators in the transcript/captions is helpful such as
"[applause]", "[laughter]", "[music]".

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 2:20 PM <EMAIL REMOVED> <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Good Afternoon,
>
> I have an auto-generated caption file I'm working with to generate a
> transcript. I've found and read the WCAG guidance, but am wondering how
> much editing is appropriate for the transcript from the auto-generated
> caption file? When I say editing I'm talking about things like speech
> patterns, punctuation, etc. Per the guidance, I am adding headings/links
> where appropriate.
>
> Thank you in advance for your feedback.
>
> Katie Frederick
> > > > >