CG 05-231 — Closed Captioning of Video Programming; CG RM-11848 — Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc (TDI) Petition for Rulemaking MB RM-11065 — Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc (TDI) Petition for Rulemaking[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”EX PARTE” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1584588184380{background-color: #f4d2cd !important;}”][vc_column_text]
Claude Stout of TDI, along with representatives from the tagged Consumer Groups (Lise Hamlin- HLAA, Zainab Alkebsi- NAD. Christian Vogler- TAP) and and Jake Stephens, Tess Cartin, Kylie Thompson, and Blake E. Reid of the Samuleson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic at Colorado Law (TLPC), counsel to TDI, met with FCC officials: Diane Burstein, Suzy Rosen Singleton, Eliot Greenwald, and Debra Patkin of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau to discuss the Petition for Declaratory Ruling and/or Rulemaking on Live Closed Caption Quality Metrics and the use of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies in the above-referenced proceedings. We discussed the two main requests in the Petition:- A short-term request for guidance on whether and how automatic speech recognition (ASR) can comport with the Commission’s existing quality standards and human- and ENT-centric best practices; and
- A long-term request for a rulemaking to improve caption quality by replacing best practices with objective, technology- and methodology neutral quality metrics.