{"id":1409,"date":"2020-08-20T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T00:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2020-08-20T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T00:03:56","slug":"letter-to-albany-city-council-to-use-automatic-captioning-for-city-meetings-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/20\/letter-to-albany-city-council-to-use-automatic-captioning-for-city-meetings-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Albany City Council to Use Automatic Captioning for City Meetings on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

Email I sent to citycouncil@albanyca.org<\/p>\n

To make the meetings of City of Albany more accessible,\u00c2\u00a0please turn on auto captioning for all the city meetings<\/b>\u00c2\u00a0that are streamed via the Albany KALB YouTube\u00c2\u00a0channel (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/<\/wbr>AlbanyKALB\/videos<\/a>). With automatic captioning, even when it is not perfect, viewers can then more easily make sense of many hours of meetings by searching and reading transcripts.\u00c2\u00a0 It's a helpful measure in the absence of high fidelity transcripts or minutes generated by a human note-taker.<\/p>\n

I noticed that many of the videos are already closed captioned but not all of them. When I went through the list of all the videos since July 2020, I found the following videos were not captioned:<\/div>\n
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