On March 5, 2019, Accessibility NYC hosted a meetup entitled “Why Human Captioning?” Presenter Mirabai Knight, Certified Realtime Captioner and Registered Diplomate Reporter, described the current state of the art in automated live captioning and discussed why a qualified human captioner is still the most appropriate choice in nearly all circumstances. She also shared her predictions about the future of live captioning and how the human and automated realms are likely to intersect going forward.
Here are some highlights from Mirabai Knight’s presentation: