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BeetleByesterday at 5:17 PM1 replyview on HN

> But in this case, the complaint was that the transcription wasn’t perfect.

This is a falsehood. The complaint was that some videos had no transcription at all.

There were other complaints, BTW - it wasn't just subtitles. There were complaints about blind people not being able to read the docs.

Edit: I think one of the (multiple) complaints was poor transcription. What I meant by "falsehood" was actually referring to an earlier comment that said something to the effect of "they provided subtitles". In some cases they did not provide subtitles.


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raw_anon_1111yesterday at 5:33 PM

Just doing a little research - I haven’t looked too deeply into- Google live caption has been built into Chrome since 2021 and there have been third party tools for accessibility since 2016.

But the overall question, is the world a better place now that the information isn’t available to anyone?

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