Real time captioning of D presentations

[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 for 
>>> people you cannot hear properly, but I'd say our efforts are 
>>> better spend with proper text version of talks published 
>>> later.
>>
>> If we want to make DConf more accessible to the hearing 
>> impaired, they should be published before or concurrently with 
>> the talks.
>
> 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.

I agree that captioning is a good idea. I was just responding to 
"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 later." If we were to release a transcript for the 
hearing impaired, it should not be *after* the talk is done.