I would agree but given that automatic transcriptions are cheaper, many people treat it as an alternative when manual transcriptions would be more appropriate.

I would agree but given that automatic transcriptions are cheaper, many people treat it as an alternative when manual transcriptions would be more appropriate. Some tech conferences were pretty good about hiring actual people for live captioning, which was great, but with conferences mostly happening online via video streams at the moment, automated captions and transcriptions might seem like an obvious choice if you don't understand the limitations.