Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-01 Thread Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 18:46:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/ I know I'd find this very useful - what do you guys think? I definitively prefer reading over watching video (and I've got the feeling I

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-01 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/1/2014 1:17 PM, Tobias Pankrath wrote: On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 18:46:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/ I know I'd find this very useful - what do you guys think? I definitively prefer reading ov

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-01 Thread bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter Bright: what do you guys think? The caption I'd like to see is the name of the speaker during the live transmissions. Bye, bearophile

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-01 Thread Nordlöw
You're not alone. I can read a transcript far, far faster than watching a video. I agree!

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-01 Thread Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter Bright, el 1 de June a las 13:48 me escribiste: > On 6/1/2014 1:17 PM, Tobias Pankrath wrote: > >On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 18:46:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > >>https://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/ > >> > >> > >>I know I'd find thi

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-01 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/1/2014 4:36 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: With FF, when watching native videos (webm for example), you can increase the speed of the video preserving the voice pitch. I usually use 1.5x speed and normally is very understandable :) I have to try that - what's the command?

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-01 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/06/14 22:48, Walter Bright wrote: You're not alone. I can read a transcript far, far faster than watching a video. That might be the case, but what's the fun in doing that. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 18:46:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/ I know I'd find this very useful - what do you guys think? Ideal situation is to have slide on the screen, and a video in the upper-left

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread sclytrack via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 20:52:16 UTC, bearophile wrote: Walter Bright: what do you guys think? The caption I'd like to see is the name of the speaker during the live transmissions. Bye, bearophile Steno? You can type in realtime? Then why the hell did I spend time learning to type usi

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread w0rp via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 20:48:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/1/2014 1:17 PM, Tobias Pankrath wrote: On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 18:46:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/ I know I'd find this very usefu

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 20:48:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/1/2014 1:17 PM, Tobias Pankrath wrote: On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 18:46:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-next-conference-should-have-real-time-captioning/ I know I'd find this very usefu

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 12:28:53 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote: The point is: real time captioning is not faster than listening regardless of your reading speed. It's useful for people you cannot hear properly, but I'd say our efforts are better spend with proper text version of talks published

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Peter Massey-Plantinga via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 15:38:48 UTC, Meta wrote: On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 12:28:53 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote: The point is: real time captioning is not faster than listening regardless of your reading speed. It's useful for people you cannot hear properly, but I'd say our efforts are bett

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2 June 2014 00:36, Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Walter Bright, el 1 de June a las 13:48 me escribiste: >> On 6/1/2014 1:17 PM, Tobias Pankrath wrote: >> >On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 18:46:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: >> >>https://lkuper.github.io/blog/2014/05/31/your-nex

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 15:47:44 UTC, Peter Massey-Plantinga wrote: On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 15:38:48 UTC, Meta wrote: On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 12:28:53 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote: The point is: real time captioning is not faster than listening regardless of your reading speed. It's useful

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/2/2014 8:46 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: However, what you can't do is change the accent to one that you may better understand. I know a lot of europeans sometimes don't quite follow me sometimes. :) Captioning also helps people who aren't native english speakers.

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/2/2014 8:47 AM, Peter Massey-Plantinga wrote: I am hearing impaired and interested in DConf talks. I can't always listen to the talks when they come out, but would definitely be more interested if they were captioned. And transcripts would be hugely appreciated as well. Thanks for letting

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/2/2014 8:53 AM, Meta wrote: If we were to release a transcript for the hearing impaired, it should not be *after* the talk is done. Sure, but we can't always do what's best, we can only do our best.

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-02 17:46, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: However, what you can't do is change the accent to one that you may better understand. I know a lot of europeans sometimes don't quite follow me sometimes. :) That's a good point. But most common reason when I have trouble he

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:00:17 -0700 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 6/2/2014 8:46 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > However, what you can't do is change the accent to one that you may > > better understand. I know a lot of europeans sometimes don't quite >

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Dmitry via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 17:00:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Captioning also helps people who aren't native english speakers. Yes! Yes! Yes! :) Because I can use translator when I see unknown words. But I understand only a small part when I listen.

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/2/2014 5:16 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:00:17 -0700 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Captioning also helps people who aren't native english speakers. And native English speakers as well. It's not all that infrequent that I

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread simendsjo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/03/2014 06:51 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > On 6/2/2014 5:16 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: >> On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:00:17 -0700 >> Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce >> wrote: >>> >>> Captioning also helps people who aren't native english speakers. >> >> And na

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Martin Drasar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 3.6.2014 7:55, simendsjo via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: >> Or because somebody in the production studio decided the music and sound >> effects needed to be at least 2x louder than the dialog. > (...) > > I was about to say the exact same thing. I always have to turn the > volume way down to

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-03 Thread simendsjo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/03/2014 08:23 AM, Martin Drasar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 3.6.2014 7:55, simendsjo via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: >>> Or because somebody in the production studio decided the music and sound >>> effects needed to be at least 2x louder than the dialog. >> (...) >> >> I was abo