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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Register: Chinese TV uses AI to translate broadcasts into sign language. It’s not going well. “China’s efforts to employ AI as a means of improving access to media for its deaf population aren’t going well, according to a professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Education.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/the-register-chinese-tv-uses-ai-to-translate-broadcasts-into-sign-language-its-not-going-well/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/16/the-register-chinese-tv-uses-ai-to-translate-broadcasts-into-sign-language-its-not-going-well/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Pete Warden: How to caption videos in Javascript. “I’m excited to announce the public launch of MoonshineJS. This is an in-browser implementation of our lightweight speech to text models, and while you can do a lot of different things with the library, one of my favorite use cases is adding captions to videos.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/pete-warden-how-to-caption-videos-in-javascript/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/pete-warden-how-to-caption-videos-in-javascript/</a></p>
Robert Thinks You’re Great<p>What’s one thing you wish every video producer or content creator knew about closed captions (or Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing)?</p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ClosedCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedCaptions</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SDH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SDH</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/DeafCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeafCulture</span></a></p>
AfterDawn<p>Netflixin tekstityksiin iso uudistus</p><p>Moni suomalainenkin katsoo Netflixin englanninkieliset sarjatkin englanniksi tekstitettyinä. Tähän saakka nämä tekstitykset ovat olleet kuulo-ongelmista kärsiville tarkoitettuja ns. closed captions -tekstityksiä. Rinnalle tulee nyt myös "tavalliset" englanninkieliset tekstitykset, joissa ei ole enää kuvailevia tekstejä, kuten "askeleet lähestyvät".</p><p><a href="https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/27/netflix-tekstitykset-englanniksi-uudistus-ei-closed-caption" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/04/27/net</span><span class="invisible">flix-tekstitykset-englanniksi-uudistus-ei-closed-caption</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/netflix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netflix</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/tekstitykset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tekstitykset</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/closedcaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>closedcaptions</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/suoratoisto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>suoratoisto</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/uutiset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uutiset</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/teknologia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teknologia</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/televisio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>televisio</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/tekniikka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tekniikka</span></a></p>
NagaAbleist bowdlerizing--yeah, it's Netflix
Matt ⁂ 🇳🇴 🇺🇦<p>It's really great that some YouTubers go to the effort of transcribing the video and set the timing for the subtitles. 👍 </p><p>But then they EMBED THEM IN THE VIDEO 🤨 instead of uploading them directly to YouTube, which means they aren't very accessible and you're unable to translate them. 👎 </p><p><a href="https://oslo.town/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/ContentCreators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ContentCreators</span></a> <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/Subtitles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Subtitles</span></a> <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/ClosedCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedCaptions</span></a> <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/A11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>A11y</span></a> <a href="https://oslo.town/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a></p>
Ben Myers 🦖<p>Some YouTubers were upset to find that their <a href="https://a11y.info/tags/ClosedCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedCaptions</span></a> / <a href="https://a11y.info/tags/subtitles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subtitles</span></a> were scraped and used to train <a href="https://a11y.info/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> models: <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-training-data-apple-nvidia-anthropic/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/youtube-traini</span><span class="invisible">ng-data-apple-nvidia-anthropic/</span></a></p><p>As a deaf person, I'm left wondering how creators will react to this. Will any creators stop providing polished captions, or start polluting their captions, or turn off their captions altogether, in an attempt at resistance?</p><p>Captions are already hard work and expensive. It seems unwise to make creators' relationship to them more adversarial.</p>
Jake<p>Does anyone have any insight into how <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ClosedCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedCaptions</span></a> happen?</p><p>I've noticed issues in two shows recently, due to the strong accents and speech patterns (Northern Irish in Blue Lights on SBS, and Yorkshire in The Long Shadow on Stan). </p><p>Are the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/captions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>captions</span></a> generated by computer and checked by human? Are they done by the production/distribution company, or the broadcaster? <a href="https://aus.social/tags/subtitles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subtitles</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/question" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>question</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a></p>
Graham Perrin<p>Thought for the day.</p><p>Parallel to me largely abandoning YouTube – a direct result of Google's wildly excessive advertising – I'm hugely grateful to whoever develops and implements the technologies for auto-generated transcripts. </p><p>If this is AI: it makes me no less grateful. </p><p>Spun off from: </p><p>— &lt;<a href="https://sh.reddit.com/comments/1d42yh6/-/l6gmwze/?context=2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sh.reddit.com/comments/1d42yh6</span><span class="invisible">/-/l6gmwze/?context=2</span></a>&gt;</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/advertisements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>advertisements</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>advertising</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/turnoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turnoff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/exess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/imbalance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imbalance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/transcript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transcript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/closedcaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>closedcaptions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/CC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/subtitles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subtitles</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>On the matter of accessibility and excellent closed captions:<br>Watching the end credits of an episode of Candela Obscura (chapter three, episode one) and the captions were excellent, as always. I can hear but they help me spot things I might miss, and to concentrate, but I also just appreciate them as an art form. But. Guess how many closed captions editors Critical Role hired for this?<br>FIVE. FIVE EDITORS. And that's how you do it. With intention!</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ClosedCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedCaptions</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a></p>
FadedOasis 🌈<p>It's time for a new game!</p><p>Well, not a new game. New to me.</p><p>I'm playing ANNO: Mutationem. I know nothing about it, other than it's an action-adventure RPG and has amazing graphics. Come discover this game with me! <a href="https://twitch.tv/fadedoasis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">twitch.tv/fadedoasis</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kind.social/tags/GoingLive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoingLive</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/Stream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stream</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/Streaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Streaming</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/SmallStreamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStreamer</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/ClosedCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedCaptions</span></a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/AnnoMutationem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnnoMutationem</span></a></p>
JL Johnson :veri_mast:<p>Gosh, the closed captions on recordings of live news bits are GARBAGE. How are they able to get away with this? <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/closedcaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>closedcaptions</span></a></p>
Ben Myers 🦖<p>In case you missed it: on Tuesday, I published a blogpost! Give this a read if you've ever wondered:</p><p>• Why do video players seem to distinguish between captions and subtitles?</p><p>• Do closed captions imply the existence of open captions?</p><p>• What exactly *are* atom rays of superhuman strength?</p><p><a href="https://a11y.info/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://a11y.info/tags/ClosedCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedCaptions</span></a><br><a href="https://benmyers.dev/blog/captions-and-subtitles/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">benmyers.dev/blog/captions-and</span><span class="invisible">-subtitles/</span></a></p>
betalars :antifa:<p>Okay, dear <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deaf</span></a> community, and users of <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ClosedCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedCaptions</span></a> ... I need your assistance:</p><p>I am Working on a open Source Closed Captioning System for Games, and try use existing TV Standards as a starting point (as game standards are generally bad). However: some of these Standards need Adaptation to be usable for games, so help me out by filling this survey.</p><p>Please boost so this can reach users of Closed Captions. :BoostOK:</p><p>[Edit:] This is not about subtitles, it is about closed captions.</p>
betalars :antifa:<p>So I just came back to the surface to report the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Godot</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ClosedCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedCaptions</span></a> rabbit hole is very deep.</p><p>I'm about to re implement the AudioServer. Good thing juggling captions is easier than juggling audio streams.</p>
Ben Myers 🦖<p>Is it just me, or have YouTube's automatic <a href="https://a11y.info/tags/ClosedCaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClosedCaptions</span></a> gotten noticeably *worse* in the past year or so?</p><p>It feels like word recognition has gotten much sloppier, and I've been noticing bits where the captions seem to duplicate words and sounds that aren't duplicated in the source audio.</p>
FiXatoRoe versus Wade, transcript of Ana Kasparian's rant on The Young Turks
Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGurl<p>If you need some quality <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/closedcaptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>closedcaptions</span></a> done for your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> videos, I am a professional working caption editor who can help, now taking commissions! Please read the info on the graphics and fill out the form in the link below, and we can get started.</p><p><a href="https://forms.gle/yNzEv5oGNdXpyNJS8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">forms.gle/yNzEv5oGNdXpyNJS8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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