Individuals of the Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing communities have a wide range of tools to help interact with the world. Tools like auto-captioning using Google Slides or video conferencing, teletype, text transcripts, haptic and visual alerts/feedback, or sign language just to name a few. Some real-time captioning tools may also have built-in AI that allows for auto-translation but you should always keep in mind that "automatic" does not always mean accurate.
Watch the video from YouTube Creators Rhett and Link about the built-in auto-captioning tools available on the platform that they use and, if you can, check out the auto-captions on videos you may have uploaded to YouTube.
Watch the YouTube video about YouTube's auto-captioning (which has gotten a little better with time). Though the video itself is funny keep in mind that many individuals rely on closed captions. If you have any videos that you have created and uploaded to YouTube log into the YouTube Studio and review your auto-captions .
1) Some surveys have found that 60 - 80% of 18 - 35 year old's use subtitles all the time while watching TV on any device even though only 10 - 15% are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Why do you think that is?
2) Is the proliferation of auto-captioning tools built in to services like YouTube, Zoom, and Google Slides a benefit or a hinderance to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities?