The future holds improvements to the quality of automated captions. This page explains why. The accuracy of machine-generated captions is influenced by many factors such as sound quality, speech characteristics (accent, hesitation, and volume), content (abbreviations, scientific or technical language) or poor synchronisation of the subtitle track and audio. Speech recognition technology is an emerging field, already influencing our engagement with technology at home and at work through devices that respond to spoken commands and virtual assistants. As speech-to-text technologies develop, the need for human correction of subtitles should reduce over time as the accuracy of automated outputs improves. To ensure the University has sight of technology trends in this area to understand how they might influence service development over time, we are also investigating possible technical solutions going forward including what the advances in AI will bring in this area. This article was published on 2024-10-08
