{"id":4542,"date":"2025-03-14T15:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2025-04-28T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:17:14","slug":"media-ai-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2025\/03\/14\/media-ai-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"media, AI and students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4547\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/captioners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4547 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/captioners-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Interns working on K.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/captioners-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/captioners-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/captioners-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/captioners.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interns working on K.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-US\">I am pleased to be able to offer paid work to 20 student interns to work in ISG as captioners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-US\"> Alongside AI tools which generate automated captions and transcripts, the human captioners ensure that the standard of quality is good enough to support students with hearing difficulties. \u00a0 This semester (to 5th March) \u00a0they have corrected over 100 \u00a0pieces of media.<\/span>\u200b The\u00a0<span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-US\">time spent captioning varies significantly based on the subject, but as the captioners gain skill and confidence the turnaround time and quality increases. \u00a050-minute long lectures are usually turned around within 4 days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to be able to offer paid work to 20 student interns to work in ISG as captioners. Alongside AI tools which generate automated captions and transcripts, the human captioners ensure that the standard of quality is good enough to support students with hearing difficulties. \u00a0 This semester (to 5th March) \u00a0they have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","tag-accessibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}