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From: Kathryn.Frederick@ood.ohio.gov
Date: Apr 7, 2020 3:06PM

Glen,

Thank you for the links. Since I'm working with an automatic caption file, I'm hopeful to find some guidance on punctuation. There are a lot of repeated words that I'm fighting with Microsoft Word about and some other sentence/grammatical stuff, but again, not sure how much of that kind of thing, if any, is mine to edit/correct. Again, thanks for the link resources.

Katie Frederick


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There's good info on transcripts at
https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FWAI%2Fmedia%2Fav%2Ftranscripts%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Ckathryn.frederick%40ood.ohio.gov%7Cbfe85af68ad548cdd07208d7db36462a%7C50f8fcc494d84f0784eb36ed57c7c8a2%7C0%7C0%7C637218898459649268&amp;sdata=kzkmiF1McJiesInbelEST0mPkjlDNzygZdOeqtq0%2Fng%3D&amp;reserved=0

There's a note about automatic captioning on the previous webpage at
https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FWAI%2Fmedia%2Fav%2Fcaptions%2F%23automatic-captions-are-not-sufficient&amp;data=02%7C01%7Ckathryn.frederick%40ood.ohio.gov%7Cbfe85af68ad548cdd07208d7db36462a%7C50f8fcc494d84f0784eb36ed57c7c8a2%7C0%7C0%7C637218898459649268&amp;sdata=puN0Tu4uEtNj93aUxaFdissHp2X3vIVYH6deoYVtbgA%3D&amp;reserved=0

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]".

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> 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
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