leah & tigers & bears, oh my! on Nostr: "make auto-captioning an optional external plugin" is a take that carries a heavy ...

"make auto-captioning an optional external plugin" is a take that carries a heavy whiff of "don't foist your niche accessibility needs on the rest of us"

speech recognition is a mature technology, which can run on machines that are pathetic by modern standards. companies like Dragon had practical systems at the end of the last century. pretending it's the same thing as LLMs just because certain colossal web companies have chosen to do it that way is frankly an insult to the intelligence of your audience. even if the methods are similar, the scale is... well, you're equating a bungalow with a skyscraper and then calling for a ban on bungalows because they pollute the skyline.