July 24, 2025 at 5:00 am
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July 24, 2025 at 6:08 am
So much out there relies on video and audio. As a deaf person, this is a whole world I struggle to interact with.
As an experiment, turn the sound off and read the closed captions (if available). Then listen to the podcast. What do you notice?
July 24, 2025 at 1:05 pm
So much out there relies on video and audio. As a deaf person, this is a whole world I struggle to interact with.
As an experiment, turn the sound off and read the closed captions (if available). Then listen to the podcast. What do you notice?
I've watched a few Youtube videos with CC turned on (such as watching at work,) and I agree, auto-closed captioning can be very, very hit-or-miss. Additionally, any time it runs into a "technical" term or "niche" term, well, yeah...
On the topic of the Editorial, I have a hard time "focusing" on podcasts, I find a learn better by reading and preferably doing. I did, today, tune into Steve's podcast for a bit, but I honestly couldn't tell you which ones I listened to, or what they were about (mostly.) Maybe I'm too old-school for podcasts LoL.
July 25, 2025 at 4:56 pm
People like Scott Taylor (The Data Whisperer) are both entertaining and informative. Because he is a public speaker, the closed caption interpretation is excellent.
July 25, 2025 at 5:28 pm
David.Poole wrote:So much out there relies on video and audio. As a deaf person, this is a whole world I struggle to interact with.
As an experiment, turn the sound off and read the closed captions (if available). Then listen to the podcast. What do you notice?
I've watched a few Youtube videos with CC turned on (such as watching at work,) and I agree, auto-closed captioning can be very, very hit-or-miss. Additionally, any time it runs into a "technical" term or "niche" term, well, yeah...
On the topic of the Editorial, I have a hard time "focusing" on podcasts, I find a learn better by reading and preferably doing. I did, today, tune into Steve's podcast for a bit, but I honestly couldn't tell you which ones I listened to, or what they were about (mostly.) Maybe I'm too old-school for podcasts LoL.
I am the same as you - I find videos and podcasts are not good training tools for me. Give me a book or a blog post to read and I have a much better understanding of the topic. Get my hands dirty and I'm pretty darn good at things. But have someone talk me through it in a video, podcast, or even in person and I'll understand it at the time and then it's all gone. Closed captioning helps, but the auto-generated ones are not very good for technical things. For TV shows they are close enough, but for technical things, having the CC tell me the wrong term and I think I just misheard the presenter means that my google-fu for more details on that thing will lead me the wrong way. Now, if the CC or transcript is manually written so it is pretty accurate, I can read along with the presenter and I am good. There are a few exceptions as I've been in some training sessions where things just clicked, but they were usually because I had a pretty good understanding of the thing already so it wasn't like I was learning entirely new, it was more reinforcing what I already knew with some new content.
The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.
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