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I am hard of hearing and lip read to assist with following conversations. I absolutely hate video conferencing tools. The sound is horrible and live captions a

I am hard of hearing and lip read to assist with following conversations. I absolutely hate video conferencing tools. The sound is horrible and live captions are often incorrect. Very few people speak clearly enough for accurate captioning. I prefer to read and be shown rather than being told. I prefer email, and avoid voicemail. So if you are trying help your team mate, simply focus on alternatives to talking and listening. The internet is great for learning since so much good material is available in written form.

drewcoo 4y ago
> Very few people speak clearly enough for accurate captioning. If this is true of most people, then maybe the finger of blame should not point at the people. Software sucks. That's why we all have jobs.
HideousKojima 4y ago
The worst is that one person that seems to exist on every team whose microphone sounds like it's being filtered through Satan's asshole, and they do nothing to attempt to improve the situation no matter how many times you tell them their audio is incomprehensible.
- klyrs 4y ago
  Your company should provide better audio equipment for those users.
  - HideousKojima 4y ago
    They do, this guy insists on using his phone to join Zoom calls
    - bombcar 4y ago
      I believe there are ways to disable phone for Zoom calls ... but that needs buy-in (you can disable audio conferencing, and say it's for "security reasons").
      - lostlogin 4y ago
        Surely a manager directly approaching the individual and saying “don’t do that” is a better approach?
        bombcar 4y ago
        99.9% of these problems could be solved by a manager doing their job, but that's the problem.
    - eimrine 4y ago
      Why not to connect an external USB mic to a desired smartphone?
archb 4y ago
Hard of hearing as well. Personally, I have found Zoom's live captions to be decent to make sense of what's happening. There are some words that are misinterpreted, but the overall context is understood. My only complaint is that these accessibility features should be available to everyone, not gated to free users. At the start of COVID in 2020, Zoom allowed free users to request captions as well and it took a few followups for my account to be enabled. Not sure if they are still offering it.
lostlogin 4y ago
> so much good material is available in written form. Have you found a slide towards video occuring across resources? I can’t stand video as a learning tool, I want to skim read and focus on the bits that I don’t already know.
- gc22browsing 4y ago
  I'm annoyed by the number of videos. What's worse is that in most cases what takes 45+ minutes on a video could be read in 5-10 minutes in written form. Where available I go for the transcripts.
  - james_in_the_uk 4y ago
    “ Another thing to keep in mind is accessibility increases access for everyone, including non-disabled users. “ Haben Girma: https://habengirma.com/transcripts/wwdc_2016.txt https://habengirma.com/transcripts/wwdc_2016.txt
_nalply 4y ago
My brother is hard of hearing and extremely disillusioned about his workplace, but somehow he managed to bulldoze the team. The last time he told me that he has a separate captioning software running to Zoom meeting audio. This seems to work so well that he started to ignore running Zoom meetings and continued working and after the meeting he reads the transcripts. He said: „My colleagues are all complete bozos and most of the time what they utter is irrelevant.“ I find this frighteningly awesome and blasé.

drewcoo 4y ago

> Very few people speak clearly enough for accurate captioning. If this is true of most people, then maybe the finger of blame should not point at the people. Software sucks. That's why we all have jobs.

HideousKojima 4y ago

The worst is that one person that seems to exist on every team whose microphone sounds like it's being filtered through Satan's asshole, and they do nothing to attempt to improve the situation no matter how many times you tell them their audio is incomprehensible.

klyrs 4y ago
Your company should provide better audio equipment for those users.
- HideousKojima 4y ago
  They do, this guy insists on using his phone to join Zoom calls
  - bombcar 4y ago
    I believe there are ways to disable phone for Zoom calls ... but that needs buy-in (you can disable audio conferencing, and say it's for "security reasons").
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      Surely a manager directly approaching the individual and saying “don’t do that” is a better approach?
      - bombcar 4y ago
        99.9% of these problems could be solved by a manager doing their job, but that's the problem.
  - eimrine 4y ago
    Why not to connect an external USB mic to a desired smartphone?

archb 4y ago

Hard of hearing as well. Personally, I have found Zoom's live captions to be decent to make sense of what's happening. There are some words that are misinterpreted, but the overall context is understood. My only complaint is that these accessibility features should be available to everyone, not gated to free users. At the start of COVID in 2020, Zoom allowed free users to request captions as well and it took a few followups for my account to be enabled. Not sure if they are still offering it.

lostlogin 4y ago

> so much good material is available in written form. Have you found a slide towards video occuring across resources? I can’t stand video as a learning tool, I want to skim read and focus on the bits that I don’t already know.

gc22browsing 4y ago
I'm annoyed by the number of videos. What's worse is that in most cases what takes 45+ minutes on a video could be read in 5-10 minutes in written form. Where available I go for the transcripts.
- james_in_the_uk 4y ago
  “ Another thing to keep in mind is accessibility increases access for everyone, including non-disabled users. “ Haben Girma: https://habengirma.com/transcripts/wwdc_2016.txt https://habengirma.com/transcripts/wwdc_2016.txt

_nalply 4y ago

My brother is hard of hearing and extremely disillusioned about his workplace, but somehow he managed to bulldoze the team. The last time he told me that he has a separate captioning software running to Zoom meeting audio. This seems to work so well that he started to ignore running Zoom meetings and continued working and after the meeting he reads the transcripts. He said: „My colleagues are all complete bozos and most of the time what they utter is irrelevant.“ I find this frighteningly awesome and blasé.