Real time captioning of D presentations

[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 useful - what do you guys think?
>>
>> I definitively prefer reading over watching video (and I've 
>> got the feeling I'm
>> not alone). Wouldn't spend a single buck for this though.
>>
>> To publish the slides along with a text version of the talk 
>> would be an
>> alternative.
>>
>
> You're not alone. I can read a transcript far, far faster than 
> watching a video.

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.