Koemei Koemei is a self-service cloud-platform and API for automated transcription and captioning of video content at large scale.
The Web Access website also contains useful information and resources for the UC Berkeley community in regards to accessibility, including tips on captioning and audio description (for video content).
Next up: iTunes Preview for video content?
(Special thanks to Jeff Dinnell for video content).
By not providing closed captions for online video content, whether it is a YouTube channel or an online class, content providers are denying millions of people access to cultural information, further contributing to their oppression -- the very thing the ADA was designed to protect against.
The most important one is to provide captioning for audio and video content, which will become possible when we hire a new Multimedia Producer this summer.
As a hard of hearing beauty blogger, Poynter discovered there were many barriers to web access, as many people choose not to caption their video content, so she began advocating for better online accessibility.
Earlier in the week Google launched a service that lets you search through the content of TV shows, based primarily upon the words used in the closed captioning of the dialogue, but it doesn't search for actual clips of video content.
Consumers are hungry for engaging video content.
This will give new cognitive capabilities for Video Comprehension to enable rich descriptions, such as automated captioning for the blind, automatic compact summaries, such as sports highlights and movie trailers, and deep comprehension of video content".
This AI helps rank News Feed stories, read aloud the content of photos to the vision impaired and automatically write closed captions for video ads that increase view time by 12 percent.
