On Aug 21, 2021, at 5:57 PM, Carol in Boston <carolagate34@...> wrote:

When Zoom finally provided free captioning the quality was the best I had seen so far. Rev was originally useless, but it had improved. GoogleMeet wasn’t much better than Rev. But it has been a year of improvement for ASR. 

The Zoom instructions were so bad that when I told people the free captions were now available, most of them were unable to install them. But someone then posted the attached instructions and all my groups started turning on captions. At first I had to keep reminding them, but before long it became habit.

I haven’t yet attended a hybrid meeting, but my various groups are working on it.

Before Zoom had captions I subscribed to Otter and propped it up under my computer. It was helpful only rarely. The best thing about Zoom is that the captions can be moved so I can place them right under each speaker’s mouth.

During this time I have also been trying to use captions on my iPhone, so I can use it when speakers are masked. Most of them would not work without wifi, and few places I went had wifi. Just a few days ago I downloaded eyeHear, which is the most accurate and works without wifi. But I can’t figure out if it’s possible to reduce the size of the type. It is so huge that only a few words are visible at a time.

As for the Boston chapter, we used Zoom with captions. A member worked in a school and used their account. When they dropped the account, we bought a year’s subscription.

I would like to learn the results of your research.

Carol Agate 

Boston chapter, formerly Los Angeles 

On Aug 21, 2021, at 12:57 PM, Sara Oser, N Bay Of CA Chapter via hlaagroups.hearingloss.org <saraoser=aol.com@...> wrote:

We are exploring options for connecting to captioning. We are exploring  in-person and hybrid (in-person and Zoom) meeting rooms. What has worked successfully for you.   What equipment did you use to send the voice to the remote captioner or to the ASR?  Do you use a captioning app on your phone and connect it to a projector? What did you view the captions on?  Did you connect to a projector and then view the captions on a television screen or regular screen? 

We are looking for details of how to set this up. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you.

Sara Oser
HLAANB
HLAA.NBofCa@...

On Jul 22, 2021, at 8:06 PM, Carol in Boston <carolagate34@...> wrote:

I don’t watch things live. I watch 60 Minutes and the late night comics on my iPad. Also news programs. I know how to turn captions on when there are captions, but few of the programs do. There are more often captions on the computer than on the iPad. 60 Minutes is particularly frustrating because they always have a nice big CC but when you select it there are no captions, even tho’ there are options for the color and size you want. Closer Look has captions about half the time. Stephen Colbert usually does. Anderson Cooper never does.There’s one that has captions on top that are like the old days when they were a bunch of letters that made no sense. PBS News Hour always has captions, and sometimes they are great, practically synched. But lore often they lag about 5 to 8 second behind the talker so they are close to useless. MSNBC always has a lag. I doubt they use CART, but if it’s ASR I don’t know why it lags so far. CNN does have them. There it a text logo, but it’s always greyed out.

So it tends to be erratic. I wind up choosing what I will watch based on whether there are captions and preferably the captions appear with thew speech.

On Jul 22, 2021, at 1:14 PM, Mary Jarrett <mwjarrett@...> wrote:

Carol,

I regularly watch YouTube on my iPad, with captions. You have to turn on captioning, then the cc will appear on the video for you to choose to use them. You can Google how to do this.  

Mary Jarrett

MWjarrett@...

(904) 635-6660 cell

On Jul 22, 2021, at 12:02 PM, Carol in Boston <carolagate34@...> wrote:

Thanks. I’m glad I asked instead of continuing to try figuring it out. Too bad. I use the iPad for watching TV and youtube programs. Supposedly youtube captions everything, but that, too, seems to be only on the computer and not iOS.

Carol 

On Jul 21, 2021, at 10:28 AM, Jaynie Kind, CA Peninsula Chapter <jwkind2000@...> wrote:

I started using the Chrome captioning a month ago and never was able to use it on my iPad (which is my preference). I had to use it on my iMac. I’m guessing its because it doesn’t work on IOS, only on OS. 

Jaynie Kind
Peninsula Chapter