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masukomi

@sigi714 🤔i guess it depends on what you’re documenting and how well you’ve accommodated blind people.

It sounds like a silly alternative but i can think of a bunch of open source project that would dramatically benefit from having a video overview and a usage guide video.

It’d be terrible if it was the only form of documenting functions but i’d watch a video demonstrating how to use an APIs primary functionality

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sigi714

@masukomi Ah, okay. Well, I've seen "video only" often, and I don't like it.
I end up in zapping through videos because I can remember something was said/shown, but it takes ages to find it.

masukomi

@sigi714 yeah, the problem is that different people learn different ways. In your particular case I'd note 3 things: 1. that YouTube transcribes everything. 2. those transcriptions are easily attainable

Easiest way i know to get a transcript from YouTube is to just go here tactiq.io/tools/youtube-transc but they're not doing anything fancy. it's easily available to all.

I'd also note that Whisper is exceptionally good and can transcribe _any_ audio (podcasts) for you.

masukomi

@sigi714

I think your comment is a good example of why there's value to multiple forms of documentation. Also, to how OS people who DO make videos could really help things with little effort, by making the transcripts of them easily available on their sites.

sigi714

@masukomi Thanks for the Whisper hint, I will give it a try for sure :)

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