

You pick one language, and that will typically create AI-generated captions for the video. When you upload a video to YouTube, you set what language the video is being spoken in. Thomas explains Equal Entry’s captioning project in which we looked at four popular AI captioning services: AI Captioning Services Used in the Test Cases A lot of the things that Thomas and I talk about in this post illustrate why you can’t rely on an artificial intelligence (AI) solution. She gives details on a lot of the reasons why you can’t rely on automated captions. Mirabai presented on Why Human Captioning? at A11yNYC. A11yNYC has worked with Mirabai Knight from the beginning of doing this Meetup. The following example shows the problem when captions don’t have a dark background for contrast.Ī best practice for captioning live events is to hire an amazing human captioner. It’s a shame when they make poor captioning choices that you can’t read them. People put so much effort into adding captions.

After all, if nobody can read your captions, then none of the other rules matter. The number one rule for high-quality accessible captioning is readability. Some changed ten to 10 with digits, dropped the plural, or converted tin into pin. Image Description: Bart Simpson-style scene in a New Yorker comic style where a robot writes variations of "I bought ten tin cans" on a chalkboard in a classroom.
