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As a screen reader serving the blind & vision impaired, our users rely on audio rather than visuals, therefore this week we bring you an audio testimonial from Jacques in South Africa. Jacques is a technical specialist for a financial organisation.

“When dealing with inaccessible software, NVDA’s object navigation often saves the day…NV Access & add on contributors around the globe, your efforts are appreciated” - Jacques

Thank you Jacques for sharing how NVDA helps you!

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NV Access
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For anyone who uses captions, on the YouTube version of this video, we tried out YouTube's auto-captions today, rather than writing them out manually. We'd be interested in how you find them and any feedback either way (It's certainly faster, although I suspect not quite as accurate?) YouTube link: youtu.be/fPbZ1sA69oo

Jacques testimonial

As a screen reader serving the blind and vision impaired, our users rely on audio rather than visuals, therefore this week we bring you an audio testimonial ...
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Kara Goldfinch
Kara Goldfinch
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I don't know how good they are but in the deaf community they've been called "autocraptions"
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NV Access
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@KaraLG84 That doesn't sound promising! :D Ok I'll see if we get any other feedback. Might need to go back to manually writing them up next week. I just thought I'd try it since I used them for the Spanish one last time (Had to for that as I don't speak Spanish myself)
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Darrell Hilliker 👨‍🦯♾️📡
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@KaraLG84 It is still my experience that manual captions are still far better than anything automatically generated.
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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Have you tried Whisper? It’s super accurate, especially with the larger models.
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@miki Previously we'd written the captions manually. Since we needed to use the auto captions last time (because I don't speak Spanish), I thought we'd try it on an English language video this week and see what people thought.
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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A really good solution for autocaptions is Whisper, a free and open source solution from Open AI.
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Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel
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I recommend downloading Buzz, which allows you to transcribe audio files and export to caption files. So long as your video's audio matches the time stamps of the video file, you'll get far more accurate results.
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Paul Houle
Paul Houle
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I use NVDA at work for testing accessible web sites, keep up the great work!
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@UP8 Thanks Paul! We're glad you find it helpful! Please do share with others.
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@rats @KaraLG84 Thanks! I actually usually make them myself so I know they are accurate - I needed to do it for a video the previous week which was in Spanish (and I don't speak Spanish) - so having figured out how to do it for that, I thought I'd try it for an English one. Lots of feedback on the experience, so I think I'll go back to hand crafted captions this week :) Thank you for taking the time to articulate those issues!
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this is the auto generated captions on the video you linked, for reference
@rats @KaraLG84 Listening to that, it actually doesn't sound too far off, but definitely not 100% (Envy access instead of NV Access, etc)
@rats @Kara Goldfinch
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