On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 20:48:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/1/2014 1:17 PM, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>> On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 18:46:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> https://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/
>>>
>>>
>>> I know I'd find this very useful - what do you guys think?
>>
>> I definitively prefer reading over watching video (and I've got the feeling I'm
>> not alone). Wouldn't spend a single buck for this though.
>>
>> To publish the slides along with a text version of the talk would be an
>> alternative.
>>
>
> You're not alone. I can read a transcript far, far faster than watching a video.

Learning varies from person to person. I interalise information better through lectures than through written articles. Although for some reason I remember books more easily than articles.

On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 20:48:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/1/2014 1:17 PM, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>> On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 18:46:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> https://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/
>>>
>>>
>>> I know I'd find this very useful - what do you guys think?
>>
>> I definitively prefer reading over watching video (and I've got the feeling I'm
>> not alone). Wouldn't spend a single buck for this though.
>>
>> To publish the slides along with a text version of the talk would be an
>> alternative.
>>
>
> You're not alone. I can read a transcript far, far faster than watching a video.

The point is: real time captioning is not faster than listening regardless of your reading speed. It's useful for people you cannot hear properly, but I'd say our efforts are better spend with proper text version of talks published later.

On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 12:28:53 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> The point is: real time captioning is not faster than listening regardless of your reading speed. It's useful for people you cannot hear properly, but I'd say our efforts are better spend with proper text version of talks published later.

If we want to make DConf more accessible to the hearing impaired, they should be published before or concurrently with the talks.

On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 15:38:48 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 12:28:53 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>> The point is: real time captioning is not faster than listening regardless of your reading speed. It's useful for people you cannot hear properly, but I'd say our efforts are better spend with proper text version of talks published later.
>
> If we want to make DConf more accessible to the hearing impaired, they should be published before or concurrently with the talks.

I am hearing impaired and interested in DConf talks. I can't always listen to the talks when they come out, but would definitely be more interested if they were captioned. And transcripts would be hugely appreciated as well.

On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 15:47:44 UTC, Peter Massey-Plantinga wrote:
> On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 15:38:48 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 12:28:53 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>>> The point is: real time captioning is not faster than listening regardless of your reading speed. It's useful for people you cannot hear properly, but I'd say our efforts are better spend with proper text version of talks published later.
>>
>> If we want to make DConf more accessible to the hearing impaired, they should be published before or concurrently with the talks.
>
> I am hearing impaired and interested in DConf talks. I can't always listen to the talks when they come out, but would definitely be more interested if they were captioned. And transcripts would be hugely appreciated as well.

I agree that captioning is a good idea. I was just responding to "It's useful for people you cannot hear properly, but I'd say our efforts are better spend with proper text version of talks published later." If we were to release a transcript for the hearing impaired, it should not be *after* the talk is done.

On 2 June 2014 00:36, Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Walter Bright, el  1 de June a las 13:48 me escribiste:
>> On 6/1/2014 1:17 PM, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
>> >On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 18:46:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> >>https://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>I know I'd find this very useful - what do you guys think?
>> >
>> >I definitively prefer reading over watching video (and I've got the feeling I'm not alone). Wouldn't spend a single buck for this though.
>> >
>> >To publish the slides along with a text version of the talk would be an alternative.
>> >
>>
>> You're not alone. I can read a transcript far, far faster than watching a video.
>
> With FF, when watching native videos (webm for example), you can increase the speed of the video preserving the voice pitch. I usually use 1.5x speed and normally is very understandable :)
>

However, what you can't do is change the accent to one that you may better understand.  I know a lot of europeans sometimes don't quite follow me sometimes.  :)

On 6/2/2014 8:46 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> However, what you can't do is change the accent to one that you may
> better understand.  I know a lot of europeans sometimes don't quite
> follow me sometimes.  :)
>

Captioning also helps people who aren't native english speakers.

On 6/2/2014 8:47 AM, Peter Massey-Plantinga wrote:
> I am hearing impaired and interested in DConf talks. I can't always listen to
> the talks when they come out, but would definitely be more interested if they
> were captioned. And transcripts would be hugely appreciated as well.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll investigate this for next year.

Also, if anyone in the D community wants to create transcripts after the fact, we would be happy to post them alongside the video links. If we "crowdsource" this amongst us, it shouldn't be too difficult.

On 6/2/2014 8:53 AM, Meta wrote:
> If we were to release a
> transcript for the hearing impaired, it should not be *after* the talk is done.

Sure, but we can't always do what's best, we can only do our best.

On 2014-06-02 17:46, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

> However, what you can't do is change the accent to one that you may
> better understand.  I know a lot of europeans sometimes don't quite
> follow me sometimes.  :)

That's a good point. But most common reason when I have trouble hearing someone talk on video like these is because of poor audio quality, or background noise.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg