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[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True, but computer generated captions aren't perfect, and having a way for viewers to make corrections would be useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also true. There's a lot of enthusiasm in the Fediverse about writing alt texts, so who knows! It's a lot more work, but similar ballpark.

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I feel like Cunningham's law can be leveraged here. If someone spots a mistake in a computer generated caption and there is an option to correct it, someone will correct it!

Any corrections could also be used to train (hopefully open source) speech-to-text software.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, having an option to suggest corrections to captions would probably be much more popular than actually writing them from scratch. I doubt it will be high on the list of priorities, but it would be a neat feature for sure.