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> Discriminating against a few or against everyone because of a negligible cost is a failure. It's not a negligible cost to transcribe every single phrase the
by rhaps0dy 10y ago
> Discriminating against a few or against everyone because of a negligible cost is a failure.
It's not a negligible cost to transcribe every single phrase the lecturer utters, for hours and hours and hours of lessons.
Would it be better if the captions were generated by Youtube? Come on, that system is not good enough yet.
- endswapper 10y agoNegligible is a relative terms, which is why I used it. My school has an annual operating budget in excess of $100MM. It's a small school in the Midwest. They could slice something off to accommodate the closed-captioning. I worked in post-production in Los Angeles and Manhattan and I have a reference for closed-captioning service fees. They could do it, or even better they could hire a person (maybe more) full-time and save money. A technology solution that improves access for everyone sounds like a great starting point for a startup.
- cooper12 10y agoThey could set up a crowdsourced model for it. I don't know if they host their videos on Youtube, but it offers that option and there are services they could utilize if not such as Amara [0] which is used by Udacity and Khan Academy. [0]: https://pro.amara.org/education https://pro.amara.org/education