I get the desire for things to be written down rather than videoed. When I'm looking for instructions or information, I won't even bother with a video, I go straight for textual sources and it irritates me when that's not an option.
That said, I like recording audio/video because it gives me the freedom to talk about things casually in a way I just can't with a blog post. Additionally, I often get more interaction on certain topics in video than in blog posts.
Vlogs especially.
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@vicorva
For quite a lot of things I prefer videos. It's something I can have on in the background when I am doing something else, and it lets me hear some other human voices, which I wouldn't much otherwise as I don't get out much among other people for various reasons.
People arguing that you can just use a #TextToSpeech solution to read the transcript, probably overestimate the quality of consumer-grade #TTS engines, and miss the point that those lack human emotion.
@vicorva
aside from that, text-to-speech voices tend to have a gender bias (though #Q, the #GenderlessVoice (https://www.genderlessvoice.com/) supposedly aims to combat that, though sadly isn't as open as I'd like), and still struggle with for instance names and certain words, and don't work well with #bilingual / multi-lingual texts.
Aside that, it feels like saying we should stop having lectures and conversations and just read text books and write letters instead.
@FiXato it's just emotionally awkward for me, I guess. Although for accessibility, I'd love to do speech-to-text from the videos to get easy transcripts!
Text-to-speech isn't appealing at all for me, though.
@vicorva
not to mentions that for certain groups of people videos are easier to follow than written text. Not just for those with a visual impairment, but also for instance dyslexic folx can benefit from video.
Or just people like me, who absorb certain¹ spoken information better than written (though a combination of both works best for me.)
¹ Other things, math in particular, don't work in spoken form for me at all; which sucked in highschool, with one teacher having an auditive focus.
@vicorva
so, in short, please keep presenting content in the form *you* feel suits you best in your expression, as people are different and you can never satisfy everyone.
Don't let others restrict you in your expression.
(Having said that, if you can provide subtitles or a transcript for a video, then that's definitely a plus. It can take a lot of effort though, even with services such as #YouTube providing a decent machine-generated script to edit.)
@FiXato it's a complicated issue for sure when so many people work in different ways or have different requirements.
And yeah, I want to keep making things! I'd definitely love them to be as accessible as possible and provide transcripts wherever possible but ... yeah, it's not always easy.
The Crow Witch 🌙
FiXato (fallback)