We Asked AI to Caption Our Shows - Here's What Happened

Olivia Walker

Editor in Chief

Jul 30, 2025

1:00 - 1:30

T-Mobile Park, Main Stage

In 2020, we asked, “Could cloud speech-to-text APIs caption our shows?” The result was “sort of”- a mix of typos, dodgy accent support, misinterpreted place names, and potential serious liability meant we couldn't comply with required broadcast standards. Fast forward to now when we put the latest AI models to the test and found that thanks to context inference (or by faking it convincingly) things are looking up. Jeremy will share hard lessons, gotchas, and a peek into how these models pick their words that can help get to production-ready.

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