Lulu Miller

But when Stephanie would echo the word garage into the computer... The software would nearly without fail...

But when Stephanie would echo the word garage into the computer... The software would nearly without fail...

Creating some wonderful misunderstandings.

Creating some wonderful misunderstandings.

Creating some wonderful misunderstandings.

And I mean, this thing, voice writing, well, it became the industry standard for closed captioning. I mean, if you ever saw a closed caption after 2003, it was probably put there through this technique.

And I mean, this thing, voice writing, well, it became the industry standard for closed captioning. I mean, if you ever saw a closed caption after 2003, it was probably put there through this technique.

And I mean, this thing, voice writing, well, it became the industry standard for closed captioning. I mean, if you ever saw a closed caption after 2003, it was probably put there through this technique.

Meaning thousands and thousands of hours of television each week were accessible to the deaf. And thousands and thousands of hours of work were spent by these voice writers really forming relationships with their machines.

Meaning thousands and thousands of hours of television each week were accessible to the deaf. And thousands and thousands of hours of work were spent by these voice writers really forming relationships with their machines.

Meaning thousands and thousands of hours of television each week were accessible to the deaf. And thousands and thousands of hours of work were spent by these voice writers really forming relationships with their machines.

Well, it's no longer really an office building because the pandemic has made a lot of this work remote now. Okay. And the pandemic changed more than just where the captioning was being done. When the pandemic hits, due to everything going online, due to all of the constant press conferences happening, there is once more a flood of stuff that needs to be closed captioned.

Well, it's no longer really an office building because the pandemic has made a lot of this work remote now. Okay. And the pandemic changed more than just where the captioning was being done. When the pandemic hits, due to everything going online, due to all of the constant press conferences happening, there is once more a flood of stuff that needs to be closed captioned.

Well, it's no longer really an office building because the pandemic has made a lot of this work remote now. Okay. And the pandemic changed more than just where the captioning was being done. When the pandemic hits, due to everything going online, due to all of the constant press conferences happening, there is once more a flood of stuff that needs to be closed captioned.

And now they don't have enough voice writers to cover all of this stuff. And so they are once again in this position of, oh, man, how do we keep up? And by 2020, that technology they had started playing around with back in the early 2000s, just like the black box, AI running the feed directly into the computer, it works pretty damn well.

And now they don't have enough voice writers to cover all of this stuff. And so they are once again in this position of, oh, man, how do we keep up? And by 2020, that technology they had started playing around with back in the early 2000s, just like the black box, AI running the feed directly into the computer, it works pretty damn well.

And now they don't have enough voice writers to cover all of this stuff. And so they are once again in this position of, oh, man, how do we keep up? And by 2020, that technology they had started playing around with back in the early 2000s, just like the black box, AI running the feed directly into the computer, it works pretty damn well.

It works well enough that you basically no longer need a human in the system at all. Meaning this dance... It's winding down. It's coming to an end. Today, Meredith says AI is doing around 50% of the closed captioning the National Captioning Institute is hired to do.

It works well enough that you basically no longer need a human in the system at all. Meaning this dance... It's winding down. It's coming to an end. Today, Meredith says AI is doing around 50% of the closed captioning the National Captioning Institute is hired to do.

It works well enough that you basically no longer need a human in the system at all. Meaning this dance... It's winding down. It's coming to an end. Today, Meredith says AI is doing around 50% of the closed captioning the National Captioning Institute is hired to do.