On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 1:15 PM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 28-07-2020 21:55, Taylor Blau wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:07:26AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > >> > >> Jitsi w/ audio-only certainly seems to be a step in the right > >> direction and would be more inclusive. > >> > >> Is there any speech-to-text transcription done for the hearing > >> (or extremely bandwidth) impaired? > > > > It looks like such a thing exists: > > https://jitsi.org/blog/a-speech-to-text-prototype/. > > > > Yeah. A link with current information appears to be: > > https://github.com/jitsi/jigasi#using-jigasi-to-transcribe-a-jitsi-meet-conference > > >> It'd ideally go to #git on IRC (or something that doesn't > >> require a browser to trigger swap storms on old systems). > >> > >> Even for people with good hearing, acceptable audio quality for > >> speech seems tricky to get right, being dependent on mics, > >> bandwidth, codecs, background noise, speaker/earphone quality, > >> etc. > > > > I haven't look hard enough to see if it supports redirecting its output > > to an IRC channel, but my guess is that it probably doesn't. > > I believe you're right. From the link above: > > > Currently Jigasi can send speech-to-text results to the chat of a > > Jitsi Meet room as either plain text or JSON. If it's send in JSON, > > Jitsi Meet will provide subtitles in the left corner of the video, > > while plain text will just be posted in the chat. > > > In either > > case, hopefully disabling audio and video is possible within Jitsi's web > > UI, and you should be able to read or write in the chat as well as read > > the transcription. > > > > I think there's just one catch. The transcription as of now appears to > use Google Cloud speech-to-text API. Well, its Google. I'll let you make > your own inferences. In any case, it hopefully wouldn't be a concern for > people who _read_ the transcription. > > -- > Sivaraam Hello All, Just a reminder that you have another day to respond to whenisgood [1]. Note that times are listed as 6AM-9PM (21:00) Pacific. Please specify duration preferences ( half days, full days, etc) in comments. Hopefully we'll respond soon after that with date/s that works for most. [1] http://whenisgood.net/9z2diyy -Carmen
