Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:
Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need
The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to
You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking
No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)
Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.
Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!
Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.
This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.
I use captions to deal with both hearing loss and audio processing disorder, a one-two combination of bullshit, so ACCURACY is imperative. Automatic captions are frequently VERY wrong, so you ABSOLUTELY have to edit them after generating them.
Do not, under any circumstances, put "[speaking foreign language]" instead of the ACTUAL WORDS BEING SPOKEN. Some of the people using captions are multilingual, for fuck's sake.
